For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.