Empathy is a special application of the imagination. The ability to imagine what it would be like to experience what someone else is experiencing can be crucial to moral sensitivity.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Money is not single thing, it's relate to purpose.

If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters.

Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning

The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

Everyone of you right now is valuable and essential.

Every time I see you, I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall. I feel uncomfortable every time I see you, and every time we talk, my throat tickles.