God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.

The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.