Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

Only a fool is not afraid.