discipleship

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, the trivial

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.