The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.

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

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.