What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. They're the guiding lights of a life.

One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

Most people I meet assume that Christian means very conservative, entrenched in their thinking, antigay, antichoice, angry, violent, illogical, empire builders; they want to convert everyone, and they generally cannot live peacefully with anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.

All of us in the church need "grace-healed eyes" to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

My slowness to act is a sign of mercy, not of weakness.

Gordon MacDonald said, the world can do anything the church can do except one thing: it cannot show grace.

Think too of all who suffer as if you shared their pain. HEBREWS 13:3

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.