Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.