Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.

We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

God uses language to create and command us.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.

The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino.

You don't know how many people have been strengthened because you asked God to encourage them

I like to be a very fair person.

I dare anyone to debate me on things.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.