He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.