Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.