Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people’s response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
God’s salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.
No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career – something will inevitably ruin it.
The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.
So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.
Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God.
All I know is, if I don’t care about the poor, if my church doesn’t care about the poor, that’s evil.
Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.
Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.