... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

Love one another strenuously because it's hard.

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

God is love so all God does is loving.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.