There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.