Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

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

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.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

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.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.