Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.

Jesus is compelling in the way the discovery of the stars or the experience of a one-of-a-kind romance is compelling. His presence draws you in to the deep.

Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

She knew there was something dark in her then, when she left the alley and the shadows followed.

oh what can i do life is beautiful but you don't have a clue.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

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

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.