God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

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.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

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.

Communication works for those who work at it.