The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

If the church is the body of Christ [who was disguised in servant form], why would we think the world would be able to pick us out of a crowd of other well-meaning organizations?

For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises better than the church.

To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it.

[denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.

The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow now?

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

Sometimes you must leave everything and refresh yourself in the silence of a misty lake! Every such refreshment will give you an opportunity to make a long jump on the way to your target!

American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands.

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.