True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.