We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Let's remember that Jesus didn't leave Thomas to suffer without the blessing of faith and confidence; he gave him the evidence he required. That is typical of Jesus's approach to doubt; he responded to honest doubters in the way he knew best, the way that would help them to move from doubt to knowledge.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

Living in the kingdom of God is a matter of living with God's action in our lives.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.