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

We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

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

The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.