If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.