The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

Capital T truth is dead.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

A garden is made of hope.

The world of books is my fantasy.

Life is too short to be wishing for things that have been proven by many to be achievable.

A broken shoelace can strangle me.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

Every believer is a witness whether he wants to be or not.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.

I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.