It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

next time you feel ready to conform to popular thinking on an issue, stop and think.

a faith that remains open to the ever-moving Spirit and new possibilities, rather than chaining the Spirit to our past •?a faith that welcomes opportunities to think critically and reflectively on how we think about God, the world, and our place in it, rather than resting at all costs on maintaining familiar certainties

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

This is the opposite of brainwashing. This is the opposite of Just believe and don't ask questions. He keeps inviting people to think critically, to examine, question, doubt, test, struggle. To own it for themselves. I came across this line in the New Testament: Test everything. I love that line. It's

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."

We have nearly lost our capacity to think ihcologicafly about public issues and public problems.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Einstein

I always look for the bad. There's plenty to improve on.