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

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

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

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.