We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.