Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.