Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

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.

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

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

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.