Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.