Do the truth quietly without display.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.

The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.