Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.