Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"