When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

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.

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.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.