It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.