“In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.”

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.”

“I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be onl...”

“God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you cant trace his hand, trust his heart.”

“God doesnt manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”

“...the incarnation is the complete refutation of every human system and institution that claims to control, possess, and distribute God. Whatever any church or religious leader may claim in regard ...”

“... without the incarnation, Christianity isn't even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. "Be nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love ...”

“We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.”