Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.
When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
