Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.