I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

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

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.

The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.