The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

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.

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

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.