Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.