Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

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.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the deserts of Sinai, a long way from the comforts of Egypt... Where did the great prophet Elijah go to recover his strength? To the wild. As did John the Baptist, and his cousin, Jesus, Who is led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.