Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.