At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.