“American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.”

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.

There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Your thoughts are making you.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.

They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…

I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it’s silly to talk about him not existing.

if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.