A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

All of us in the church need “grace-healed eyes” to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth.

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.

In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The Internet Changed My Life.

Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later in the day.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking... but not truly seeing.

I think there are enough professional actors to fill in for me in my absence. I enjoyed it, but I can't imagine a role that would be interesting beyond playing myself.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.