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

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

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

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.