When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all.

How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.

The church's task in the world is to model genuine humanness as a sign and an invitation to those around.

We applaud patience but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

How would you describe a mature person?

But what we notice in Mark 10 is something which seems to operate in a different dimension. For a start, it is a call, not to specific acts of behavior, but to a type of character. For

The only way we can get to the heart of understanding the moral challenge Jesus offered, and offers still today, is by thinking in terms not of rules or of the calculation of effects or of romantic or existentialist "authenticity," but of virtue. A virtue that has been transformed by the kingdom and the cross.

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there was mercy and generosity.

to truly lead one's people one must also truly know them.