A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.