God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.

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

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.