The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

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

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.