Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.

If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.