“These days I have to work twice as hard to look half as good.”

“Like a dying star, grace dissipates in a final burst of pale light, and is then engulfed by the black hole of "ungrace.”

“Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.”

“The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.”

“You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love. By all accounts, I do wish I could steal it. But I am not that sort of man. I will wait. Forever and a day...I will wait.”

“This is my mind. Only I have the right to be here.”

“Heartbreak happens every day . . . anyone can break your heart if you let them.”