"The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate."
- Timothy Keller
"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."
"Let us never forget the solemn truth that the nation is not constituted of the living alone."
The basic premise of religion "that if you live a good life, things will go well for you" is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture."
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Do not look where you fell. Look where you slipped.
"There is of course no intellectual discipline which is more exacting than the discipline which makes it possible to enter into another person's point of view, whose antecedents and training and environment, moral or intellectual or theological, are widely different from one's own."