The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

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.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.