Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.