Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it..

That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity t….

The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, tha….

The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things with which he was created, and in which he….

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed..

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives..

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dum….

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfac….

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews….

Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It….

...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before him at the judgement with no handwriti….

Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God t….

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church..

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve..

But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the abili….