“Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He’s doing.”

Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn’t distant. It’s close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home.

I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there’s not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It’s farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. […] A message from the heart to the heart.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

I’m tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I’m going camping.

The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon’s budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.