Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made this morning so glorious -- all my achievements meant nothing in God's economy. "No, the real legacy of my life was my biggest failure -- that I was an ex-convict. My greatest humiliation -- being sent to prison -- was the beginning of God's greatest use of my life; He chose the one thing in which I could not glory for His glory.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned that faith in God and considered myself secular, that wasn't a real option for me.