A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"