“Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.”

The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.