The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

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