It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which the highest inquiry into meaning and ethics and beauty coincides with the largest-scale imagination of the nature of reality itself.

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.