A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced

I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.