However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right..

The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone….

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck..

He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thi….

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter..

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners.

A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job..

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church..

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world.

...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before him at the judgement with no handwriti….

Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God t….

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfac….

The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are prec….

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is..

The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home.….

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare..

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dum….

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions.….

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it..

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives..