As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

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

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.