Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

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

I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

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

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

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

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.