Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We search to become human in a world that tempts us always to be less than human or looks to us to be more. We search to love and to be loved. And in a world where it is often hard to believe in much of anything, we search to believe in something holy and beautiful and life-transcending that will give meaning and purpose to the lives we live.

If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

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

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.