Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. 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.

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

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

If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.