You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share out your beauty with open hands.
Writing helps me to pray, because when I pause at my work I find that the mirror inside me is surprisingly clean and deep and serene, and God shines there and is immediately found, without hunting, as if he had come close to me while I was writing, and I had not observed his coming.
A god who is small enough for us to understand is not big enough for our needs.
Please stop calling them the ‘Islamic State,’ because they are not a state and they are not a religion.
Look on the face of Jesus Christ, you will find it is still the answer; no hurt you have experienced can have taken you to the place he has not been.
We do not sacrifice. We are the sacrifice.
Teach me to bear a humility which shows me, without ceasing, that I am a liar and a fraud and that, even though this is so, I have an obligation to strive after truth, to be as true as I can, even though I will inevitably find all my truth have poisoned with deceit.
Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.