We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.

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

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.