Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.