Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.