Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.

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

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

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.

I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.