“Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.”

“A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian.”

“When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.”

“God's movement is often abrupt and unsettling rather than predictable and settling.”

“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”

“Why are we angry? We are angry because we had our heart broken.”

“The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.”