We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.