The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.