"The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a few short verses, we are like someone glimpsing na..."
- N.T. Wright
"The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing."
"To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks."
"Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going."
"Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn't come naturally. And then, on the tho..."
"Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style."
"Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce."
"Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise."
"The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present."
"To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the then, and the now, and the not yet--is to understand how those emotions are ..."