Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

I write what I would like to read.

If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.