“As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.”

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.

Your life is too short to be offended by someone small.

I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn’t offend anybody.

There is no successful person in the world who was offended by the word loser.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

It’s impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you’re gonna offend people.

It’s impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you’re gonna offend people.

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you’ve gotta learn to stand up to them, so don’t be offended if I say something you don’t like.

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.