Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.