On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theo….

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us..

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else..

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairne….

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expectin….

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven..

Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world….

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itsel….

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could no….

One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words….

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part..

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return..

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven a….

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do..

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else..

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit..

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice..

Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in ….

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church..

If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap..

Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's w….