Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future