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“Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time - affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless...

"After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged." "Most laws condemn the soul and...

Kindness is a trait many people consider key to being a “good person,” but it can be taken for granted. The importance of being kind often becomes clearer when we experience kindness from another person. Being treated with kindness can improve a person’s mood. In addition, treating others with...

"Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears." ~C. S. Lewis "Grace cannot prevail until all our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed." -Robt. F. Capon

“If we suppose that God, being supremely powerful, supremely wise, and supremely loving, can achieve, and will settle for nothing less than, perfect justice, then we must also suppose that he will settle for nothing less than a full atonement for sin—something that will actually make up for, or...

"I had always thought of God as loving, but now I found out that He was far more than loving: He was love, love embodied and ingrained. I saw that He was, as it were, made out of love, so that in the very nature of things He could not do anything contrary to love." -Hannah W. Smith

“If sin is anything that separates us from God and from each other; and if God is to be “all in all,” then he must sooner or later destroy all sin and thus remove every stain from his creation. According to the New Testament as a whole, God has a two-fold strategy for accomplishing this end. On...

"The wild & wacky world we are presently living encompasses unprecedented developments. The new day I see is our God declaring, "I make everything new" in an unprecedented response." -David E. Johnson

"The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel." -E.M. Bounds "I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest...

"God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne." -Billy Graham

"Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of God.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us." -Brennan Manning "We should be astonished...

“For now, my point is simply that on the seventh day, it appears that there are no losers. So if you need some losers to feel like a winner, you may not like the seventh day.” - Peter Hiett

"Are our broadest hopes broad enough? Shall there be a nook or abyss, in all the universe of God, finally unlightened by the Cross? Shall there be a sin, or sorrow, or pain unhealed? Is the very universe, is creation in all its extent, a field wide enough for the Son of God?" -Christ Triumphant

"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity." -George MacDonald

"What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like." -Rob Bell “To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in...