The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

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

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

Saints cannot exist without a community

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

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