“What men call training and preparation, God calls the end.  God’s end is to enable me to see that He can walk on the chaos of my life just now.”

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus would have said would not be a great moral teacher.  He would either be a lunatic- on a level with a man that who says he is a poached egg- or else he would be the Devil of Hell.  You must make your choice.  Either this man was and is the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.  You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about Him being a great human teacher.  He has not left that open to us.  He did not intend to.”

“The conviction that our effort makes a difference and that we are not victims of circumstance is what keep us persisting in the face of setbacks.  It saves us from apathy, hopelessness, and despair.”

“I believe there is a writer outside of ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness.”

“Christmas is the surprise of light coming back, Easter is the surprise of spring returning.  Our faith is the ability to be open to surprises.”

” A friend says that in order to catch the Christmas spirit you must put yourself in it’s path.”

“There is no greater feeling in the world than to hear- and heed- God’s voice.”

“Christians do not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us…”

“God always intervenes when you put His agenda before yours and go for it!”

“I love to give charity; but I don’t want to be charity.  This is why I have so much trouble with grace. ..It isn’t that I want to earn my own way to give something to God, it’s that I want to earn my own way so I won’t be charity.”