And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

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

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.