One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.