No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

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

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.