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Wine is God's special drink. The purpose of good wine is to inspire us to a livelier sense of gratitude to God. - John Calvin

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

No, no, I'm not one of them. I'm one of you. I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, but I also wear fishnet stockings and drink single malt Scotch.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

friendship with God is the entire goal of the Christian life.

(Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?)

I am not thrilled by the idea that I am entering a vague in-between, after the intensity of conversion and before the calm wisdom of cronehood.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

I am not the author of my prayers; when they come, they come from God.

If you keep kosher, the protagonist of your meal is not you; it is God.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.