Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.