Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.

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

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

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.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.