Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

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

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.