Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.

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.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.