It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.

We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.

When we protect ourselves from what we fear, we also undermine our capacity for wonder.

The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.

IT is only when we are no longer in control--because of sickness, death, or our own bad choices--that we no longer cling. The path to salvation is the path of humiliation.

I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.

I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.

Tangled Moon ~ Sometimes you have to break the rules. Sometimes you have to let go of the past. And sometimes you have to accept the impossible.

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

I hate red carpet photographs!

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.