God holds the saints responsible for emotions they do not have and ought to have, as well as for the emotions they have allowed that they ought not to have allowed.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows. Gratitude for mercy given is what motivates mercy extended.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

Maturity is about relationship to God that results in wise and humble living. Maturity of love for Christ expresses itself in love for others. Thankfulness for the grace of Christ expresses itself in grace to others. Gratitude for the patience and forgiveness of Christ enables you to be patient and forgiving toward others. It is your own daily experience of the rescue of the gospel that gives you a passion for people to experience the same rescue.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.

But at least I didn't do any harm. Along the way I came to see more and more that being right about God and making sure everyone else agreed with what I knew might not be the most important thing I could do in God's eyes.

Then he washed his face and came back out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”

Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.