Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

when your life is out of balance your cheque bounces

I talk to myself, not because I'm lonely, but because sometimes I'm the only one who understands what I'm saying.

I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

Character is what you do in the dark.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.