The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.