Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted; and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.