I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.

I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.