“How Much Do We Owe People We Love?”

“Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.”

“It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.”

“How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.”

“Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. ”

“We can do hard things -- it's the impossible that takes a little longer.”

“In the New Testament, grace means God's love in action toward people who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.”