Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

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

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 more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?