Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.