Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.