Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy…

Warren Buffet, on why he is investing like crazy during this economic crisis.  Food for thought.

I came to Cru wanting to lay low and get a cultural credit for class, but when I stated what I believed [that all religions are just different channels to get to God] and didn’t find myself chained upside-down to the wall, I decided that I might come back…

Student who came recently to one of our weekly meetings, as told to Reece (a staff guy on our team)

What we celebrated a few days ago at Christmas was that the second Person of the Trinity was pushed through the birth canal of a teenaged girl.

Carrie Walker, speaking at our winter conference.

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof grace–bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us singlehandedly. The word of the Gospel–after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps–suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home free before they started:Grace was to be drunk neat: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale:

Robert Farrar Capon (via Scott Stewart)