When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.

It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory