I'm convinced being generous is a better way to live. I'm convinced forgiving people and not carrying around bitterness is a better way to live. I'm convinced having compassion is a better way to live. I'm convinced pursuing peace in every situation is a better way to live. I'm convinced listening to the wisdom of others is a better way to live. I'm convinced being honest with people is a better way to live.

This is how you remember God: you bless those who need it the most in the same way that God blessed you when you needed it the most.

When you're fighting, it's absolutely crucial to keep remembering that they're trying to figure it out just like you are.

Arguing about how it literally happened can be an easy way to avoid facing the people in your life you need to forgive. For the people who first heard this story, the story would have had a provocative, unsettling effect. The Assyrians? The Assyrians were like a huge, gaping, open wound for the Israelites. Bless the Assyrians? The story is extremely subversive because it insists that your enemy may be more open to grace and love than you are.

Agape doesn't need a reason.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite--always.

Roses red and vi'lets blue, Sugar's sweet, and so are you

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.