“for a man of religion he was one of the most untrustworthy men I had ever met. He would fit right in”
“Atheism is partly the result of bad theology, an unpaid bill resulting from failures in depicting God. It is not surprising that many have rejected God when there has been so little to attract them to him. Perhaps they would not reject as readily the God disclosed in Jesus Christ, who is an event of loving relationally and relates readily to the temporal world.”
“I decided excess, even in health, was not good for anyone.”
“Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.”
“Skeptics,” he said, “suffer from the skeptics’ disease—the problem of being right too often.”
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”