Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.

What if we lived like Jesus really did rise from the dead?

When you aren't open to grow

The texture of her skin was phantom silk, not human., not blood-warm, but dizzyingly hot anyway.

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.