You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.
The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.