We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

St. Bernard said, ‘Every word one writes smites the Devil.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

Speak the essence and live by it.

I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.