We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

God wants to help you find your way home.

The Christmas message itself is that God chooses common people to do the most uncommon things. No matter how common you are, and no matter how simple you are, God has a plan and ability to come into our world and do something unusual.

There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.

In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.