While it is God who opens the door of opportunity, you must be available to walk through it.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are themselves rooted in their own cultural moment, is to diminish God's active presence here and now.

“You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”

You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.

To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he can return to me, for I am expecting him along with the brothers.