Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.