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

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 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.

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

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.

Learn to love and broke man to marry a good man.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

God is what's good in me.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.