Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.
We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. '
We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.
A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder. . . Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing. . . If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.
For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos Press, 2016), as a thought-provoking and stimulating read that should get us all thinking about the future shape of the Church, wherever we come from.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.