True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

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.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.

Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!