J. David Muyskins

In the quite of silent prayer I accept the gift of communion with the Holy One. I wait to receive this gift, which comes like a flower blossoming. I cannot force the flower to bloom any faster than it will. I can only express gratitude for the beauty that unfolds.

Tim Keller

If you seize that gift [of grace] and keep holding on to it, then Jesus won't draw you into fanaticism or moderation. You will be passionate to make Jesus your absolute goal and priority, to orbit around him; yet when you meet someone with a different set of priorities, a different faith, you won't assume they're inferior to you. You'll actually seek to serve them rather than oppress them.

Thomas Oden

You must risk telling your own story, not as an end in itself, but rather as a sharply focused lens through which the whole Christian story is refracted.

Jan de Volder

Above all it [the life of Father Damien de Veuster] showed something universal, something essential in Christianity: namely, that in love for the poorest, lived as self-giving until death, lies a road to salvation. Neither Islam nor Buddhism produces this kind of saint.

The Christian martyr contrasts sharply with the martyrs exhibited in various extremist religious movements today. The latter look with contempt on their own lives in order to destroy the lives of others and bring them down to the grave with them. The Christian martyr gives his own life in order to save the lives of others.

Richard J. Foster

Love is not communicated in the big event but in the small acts of kindness.

Thomas Merton

Not all men are called to be hermits, but all men need enough silence and solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice of their own true self to be heard at least occasionally.

Billy Graham

When we preach atonement, it is atonement planned by love, provided by love, given by love, finished by love, necessitated because of love. When we preach the resurrection of Christ, we are preaching the miracle of love. When we preach the return of Christ, we are preaching the fulfillment of love.