It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.