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.

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

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

"Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us; it is about God, and how God forms us. It is not, in the first place, about what we do or don't do; it is about God - completing and resting and blessing and sanctifying. These are all things that we don't know much about......But it does mean stopping and being quiet long enough to see - open-mouthed - with wonder - resurrection wonder.....we cultivate the "fear of the Lord". Our souls are formed by what we cannot work up or take charge of. We respond and enter into what the resurrection of Jesus continues to do."

Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.