Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive.