A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.