The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.