Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

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.

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.