Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.
When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.
Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.
Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".
When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.
The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.
Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.
Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.
The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.
You become like what you worship
True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.