How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.

Earth does not need you, you need the earth. To save yourself, save the earth.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.

I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

Start before you’re ready.

Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.