We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

God doesn't depend primarily on the words of his disciples, nor on their clever apologetic arguments, nor on their ability to concoct ingenious marketing techniques. God relies on his disciples participating in the love that he is and thus replicating it toward each other within the body and toward all others outside the body.

The central mark of a maturing Christian, and of a maturing congregation, is that they increasingly love others as Christ loves them.

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence.

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community [even if their intentions are ever so earnest], but the person who loves those around them will create community.

It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.