Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.