The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

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

All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.