Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.