Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

One of the reasons that Christians read Scripture repeatedly and carefully is to find out just how God works in Jesus Christ so that we can work in the name of Jesus Christ.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.