What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.