Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.