Occupation: Author Birth: September 30, 1941
Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era..
I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove..
This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. T….
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to….
People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for..
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work..
As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea….
Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. To….
The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be ….
Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be..
We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seek….
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment t….
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. B….
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient..
We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled..
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind..
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom..
The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith ..
Atheism thrives on bad religion..
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like..
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" t….