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

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

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

If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

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

We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.