I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

At first, I was lost in you, but now you're lost on me.

She gritted her teeth. "You can't just... get into my bed like this." A ghost of a smile played across his face. "I already have, " he murmured.

The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.