You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.

The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.