Answer Man

"to speak the truth with love is to run the risk of always of speaking only the truths that people love to hear you speak, and the preacher's temptation, among others, is to deal with those problems only to which there is, however complex and hard to arrive at, a solution." "The cross that is a symbol of defeat before it is a symbol of victory speaks also of the absence of God." "God is not an answer man can give, God says. God himself does not give answers. He gives himself, and into the midst of the whirlwind of his absence gives himself." selections from Telling the Truth by Frederick Buechner