If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.