But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

Nothing worth noting.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.