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

I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

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.

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.