I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

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

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.