But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures.

To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.

When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.

To avoid the fall often means living a less-than life.

Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.