Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.

In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.