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We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.
Release what is good.
Love deems this world worth rescuing.
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
Homeless people bear God's image too.
As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.
We respond to healing grace by giving it away.
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
Love is an overarching style of relating to another.
Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.
If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.
