New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.