Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

We have God's joy in our blood.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.