Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

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.

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.