Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.