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.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

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

God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

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

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.