When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.