I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.