Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it. ANNIE DILLARD
When I pray, coincidences happen, said Archbishop William Temple; when I don’t, they don’t.
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
The only hope for any of us, regardless of our particular sins, lies in a ruthless trust in a God who inexplicably loves sinners, including those who sin differently than we do.
The female runner still lags behind the male, and blame rests on the pelvis. The projections on the man’s pelvis allow for more powerful muscles, but a woman equipped with them could not bear a child....
The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does show that God did not sit idly by and watch us suffer in isolation. He became one of us. T...
Somehow, that faith was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.
Self-sufficiency which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet that their lack of self-sufficiency is obvious to them every day. They m...
Sadly, Jesus’ followers tend to take the reverse approach. Some churches gradually lower the ideals, accommodating moral standards to a changing culture. Others raise the bar of grace so that needy pe...
Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus’ love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace.
One man told me the most helpful person during his long illness was an office colleague who called every day, just to check. His visits, usually twice a week, never exceeded fifteen minutes, but the c...
Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God.
Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.
It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant
It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.
I leave in God’s hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy.
I feel called to minister to telephone marketers. You know, the kind who call at inconvenient hours and deliver their spiel before you can say a word. Immediately I flashed back to the times I have re...
God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.