What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.