Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.