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

Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It simply means that as we do so we must not let the rules of power displace the command to love.

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.