The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective "Christian".

The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.