“What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.”

“He introduced himself to us out of kindness: how else could we have known him? Reason took us as far as the door; but it was his presence that let us in.”

“It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.”

“Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.”

“Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.”

“What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)”