The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

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.

By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.

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.

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.