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

There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.