God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

You never came out the way you came in.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.