To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet

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.

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God’s voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.

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

But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?