To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

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.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

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.

What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.