“God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.”
“Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.”
“People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.”
“Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.”
“People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.”
“As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.”
“After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.”
“Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.”
“What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.”
“A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.”