[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.

Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. [Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.