When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.