Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.

I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.

We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.