We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

...theology waits as it works. It waits for its lungs again to be filled. Without the renewing breath of the Spirit it cannot speak.

Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

I believe that theology is facing the abyss.I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

A God who punishes disobedience will teach us to obey and endure when it would be holy to protest and righteous to refuse to cooperate.

I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing.

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.