Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'