Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

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

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

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

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Do not believe that you will get punished for the things you do. Just be honest to yourself and the people you love.

Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion.

Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys...

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

What does your heart tell you?

I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

I want to see peace dancing in the heart of every human being.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.