God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity