Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.
Robert McAfee BrownThe Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
Robert McAfee BrownTo quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.
Robert McAfee BrownObservermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.
Robert McAfee Brown