Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

Love one another strenuously because it's hard.

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

God is love so all God does is loving.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.

He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn’t eat too much of it at once.”I nodded slowly. “Right, ” I said. “That’s…sweet, I think.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

There's the generic 'be yourself', you'll learn it the hard way. You might just have to learn it that hard way... I think I probably kind of learned it the hard way.

You have to live a life to become a writer.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.