Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

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

No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.