Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.