Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.