“Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.”

“The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.”

“Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.”

“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”

“Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

“How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“All our time spent making lists would be better spent painting, or writing, Or singing, or learning to speak stories. Sometimes I feel as though the Church has a kind of pity for Scripture, Always ...”

“Adams was in a hurry and ordered his horse drawn carriage to wait for him in front of his house. The horses were spooked before he got in the carriage, and the carriage was destroyed in an accident...”

“Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [t...”

“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“The mediastenographers to power.”