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

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.

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

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

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.