“When and how the most painful of situations is going to be resolved and redeemed is no mystery to God. Knowing this truth about God's complete knowledge really does help me accept the unacceptable in my life.”

“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.”

“They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.”

“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth.”

“The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.”

“Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into wonder, is a useful skill. Because it turns out that the most important things in this life — why the universe is here instead of not, what happens to us when we die, how the people we love really feel about us — are things we’re never going to know.”