It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

The truth of the world

Light has come to the world and men loved darkness rather than light.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

I love myself today, not like yesterday.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.