At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.