Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough.

True friends define each other.

When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back.

The Saviour set me free from my sins.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

I mean, of course that's a theoretical question, and we don't know what it would be for, and we don't know how many numbers there are. I am against American combat troops being in Syria and Iraq.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

One of my best friends is dating my other best friend, Lena!