In other words, you are our last possible hope. You are our only hope.
The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
The Latin words humus, soilearth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble. ' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.
Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.
War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.
You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.
All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.