Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.