The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum--even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking...
To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life with only half of these things in it is to want half a life, shutting the other half away where it will not...
Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
God didn't make anybody to be a second-class citizen. Of this country or the human family. I believe it because I believe that's what the Scripture teaches. And that is clearly what Jesus teaches. He says, come unto me all of you. He didn't limit love. The dude, he...
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit, and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to...
When we limit our understanding of stewardship as pertaining only to money we fail to comprehend the full impact of its true power to change not only us, but the world.
Today, vast stress is laid on the thought that God is personal, but this truth is so stated as to leave the impression that God is a person of the same sort as we are--weak, inadequate, ineffective, a little pathetic. But this is not the God of the Bible! Our personal...
Whenever you see someone who has to be right, you are looking at someone who is spending more time reading about God than praying to him. They have assumed that we are in a relationship with propositions instead of a Person. When we go before the God of the universe,...
Engineering involves more than telling materials what they must do. If the engineer does not honor the nature of the steel of the wood or the stone, his failure will go well beyond aesthetics: the bridge or the building will collapse and put human life in peril. The...
Nevertheless it is possible, in the midst of the limits and transitoriness of human existence, to make societies which are more liberating and less oppressive, and hence closer to the kingdom. To deny this is to deny all efficacy to God in history, to make the world...