prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to accomplish just that. They were dispensing grace to the broader world, and in the process their spirit helped change a nation, saving it from the revolutionary chaos that had spread across Europe.

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

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

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.

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.