The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to...
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. from The Weight of Glory
The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace--bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one...
The ultimate tragedy is not the cruelty and oppression by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
The peace you lack is not with God, but with yourself. You are not separated from God; you are separated from you. Your challenge is not overcoming your original badness, but staking claim to your original goodness. from Notes from (Over) the Edge