We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.

Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word...

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, ‘you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,’...

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God’s Dream Society on earth, spreading out...

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

I am lost and found in You.

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer.

You can’t keep playing lip service to God. You have to make a daily commitment to Love, Honor & Serve GOD.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don’t see the full picture. That’s the point. That’s what faith is. You can’t see...

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word “servant”.

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

That person has a cross to bear.” Granted, whatever kind of suffering we have is suffering that we can bear in confidence that God is with us. But the cross that Jesus had to face,...

you don’t have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the gospel isn’t only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus,...

It’s much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments.

It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his...

The teaching of one true man will carry further and deeper then that would dozen white Babus.

Happiness is activity of soul.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to...

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges...

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.

The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point that Paul grasped. And that is...

When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another are no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we...

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

You can’t guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi

Prayer is listening.

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag’s, do rage the more.

They fed the same diet to all and seemed wholly unaware that there was such a thing as meat in due season.

A cross centered life is made up of Christ centered days.

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their...

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): “What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

It’s easy to give God a list of excuses for not feeling worthy or as capable as someone else, in our service to him. The problem is that God doesn’t call those who are unprepared...

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they...

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

I suppose it’s unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman’s joy at the sight of a superior performance.