“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothin...”

“Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.”

“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishmentnarrative catechisms.”

“Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.”

“The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.”

“I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, Praise the Lord. You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.”

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”

“We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us”

“God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose”

“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

“Sometimes I try to erase myself. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl. And I see. I hear. But not wit...”