Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.