- If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.
- Your life as a Christian should make nonbelievers question their disbelief in God.
- The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
- Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.
- The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
- We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
- May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
- Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
- The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.
- The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
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