We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. 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.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.