The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.
Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.
I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.
