Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

- Robert Mcafee Brown

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

- Robert Mcafee Brown

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most to…

- Robert Mcafee Brown

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taki…

- Robert Mcafee Brown

Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.

- Robert Mcafee Brown

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

- Robert Mcafee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. T…

- Robert Mcafee Brown