Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.