A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.