Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means