Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree. It rises in us by hope, like sap rising through the trunk of a tree. And it matures in us by [love] as fruit matures on a tree's branches, fruit for the neighbor's eating.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.