Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.

The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.

Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.