Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.