The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.

If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the good guys here.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.