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

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

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

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?