By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us