... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Release what is good.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive.

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