Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

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

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way truly leads to a life most abundant and most thirst-satisfying.

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