Status Updates From Mere Morality: What God Exp...

"What God expects of ordinary people is obedience born of gratitude; what God gives ordinary people is forgiveness born of Grace."

"Once we admit the needs of people into our deliberations, we admit [...] that we do better to suspend judgment sometimes than to condemn every abortion as murder and every abortionist as a murderer."

"What costs a parent authority is not the chance of being wrong in his or her beliefs, but the failure to believe anything. Even worse, a parent may lose authority simply because he does not dare tell a child what he believes to be true and right."

"Without generous love to move its people to a deeper sense of justice, a society tends to be satisfied with the minimum."

"[J]ustice is the human task of removing inequities people suffer merely because they were born poorly. The Bible urges us to bridge these gaps, not to make them normative."