Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

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

There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.

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

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

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.

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