If it [our framing story] tells us that the purpose of life is for individuals or nations to accumulate an abundance of possessions and to experience the maximum amount of pleasure during the maximum number of minutes of our short lives, then we will have little...
Look, the world loves us when we are good, better, best, but this is the time when you want to stop feeling guilty that you are not living your best life, now. We’re not always doing mountaintop yoga. I used to have my own delusion of living my own best life...
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
God does not love you because you are good. God loves you because God is good.
Let no one tell you we don't need a revolution. The old ways do not work. We need a Holy Spirit-birthed revolution, a revolution of goodness, a revolution of compassion, a revolution of love.
I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.
Everybody needs to dream the dream of a better life, a better world. But there is such a thing as failing to accept life as it is to the point that we miss what is good about it, too. "The greatest part of our happiness," Martha Washington wrote, "depends on our...
I ask myself whether we are using sufficiently one of the doors that leads to God—the door named Beauty… One can find God through the door of truth, for truth also attracts us. But many of our contemporaries are little Pilates who ask: “What is truth?” and remain...
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
I am absolutely amazed that Joseph is the first person in the New Testament who learned how to read the Bible. Like Joseph, we are to read it through the spectacles of the grace and the goodness and the love of God. If in reading the Bible you find justification for...