“In our busy lives, intimacy often becomes a set piecewe sit down and make time for discussions, for togetherness, for sharing. But sometimes the most intimate parts of ourselvesour desires, our fea...”

“Apologies often cannot undo pain; but they can acknowledge it. And part of the cruelty of bullying is that the bruises it leaves are on the insideits a hidden form of violence, shrouded by shame.”

“Choosing life is always messy. But it is there in the messiness, in the conflicted and often confused ways we live our lives, that we can learn how much mercy matters to us all.”

“The God of the universe--the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor--loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to ch...”

“Your unlived tomorrow is more important than your Lived yesterday”

“Ask the person who found you about what kind of people she was looking for before meeting you, as she may not know that she has found one of them already.”

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when its dark”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”