Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

The image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed.... Regardless of their record or character, all human beings have an irreducible glory and significance to them, because God loves them.... So we must treasure each and every human being as a way of showing due respect for the majesty of their owner and Creator.

In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.