Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life.

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

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.