“We reach for God in many ways. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them He reaches us.”

“While we have been pursuing God he has been rushing toward us with reckless love arms flung wide to hug us home.”

“Dear God,Reveal to me through stories something of what it is like to walk around in someone else's shoes.Show me something about myself in the stories I read, something that needs changing, a thought, a feeling or attitude.Deliver me from myself, O God, and from the parachial and sometimes prejudiced views I have of other people, other nations, other races, other religions.Enlarge by heart with a story, and change me by the characters I meet there.May some of the light from their lives spill over into mine, giving me illumination where there was once ignorance, compassion where there was once contempt.”

“I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.”

“through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.”

“There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.”

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”