We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

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.

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.

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.

Jude had witnessed all of this with the dejected respect one had for people with destructive talents, like winning hamburger-eating contests.

Today religious nuts outnumber monkey nuts in the world.

Every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes... because of a nose job.

We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.