Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

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

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

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.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.