Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

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.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.

There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.

God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.