People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
I feel like I'm always learning from people.
I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.
I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.
I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.
I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.
I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.
Lord, make me now As happy as the field. With flowers enriched...
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.
Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.
I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.
