A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.