Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

Peace is a deeper reality than violence."p. 231

Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.

Eric,” she said, “maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we can go to a baby shower!” “That would be something to see,” said Eric

The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

When things change a lot, some guys handle the change better than others, but that doesn't mean the guys that take longer to get the hang of things are suddenly slow drivers!

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Singing becomes a form of therapy.