“…at once liberated and broken-hearted.” (>>)

“kindness paves the way to repentance.” (>>)

“Could someone please tell me the story
Of sinners ransomed from the fall
I still have never seen you, and somedays
I don’t love you at all” (>>) [MP3]

“I don’t really believe but I sense something important is going on.” (>>)

“some days i question whether God is paying attention to me. is he even watching? listening? why isn’t he answering? some days i want to shake my fist at the sky, demanding response. some days i actually do. and then some days, apathy overtakes any passion, any motivation, any indignance that might propel me into motion: why bother? no one is noticing, anyway. and then i remember things like this and reread them and think, man, have i still got a long way to go. one of these days i’ll get the hang of this, i suppose. until then, i guess i’ll stumble along in grace.” (>>)

“If it never happened – if there was no son of god, no death on the cross, no resurrection, no ministry, no 12 disciples, no miracles….if it was all holy myth, then where does that leave me?” (>>)

“But those moments pass, and soon my chin is in my palm again, and I am wondering why I can’t really see God.” (>>)

“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe. I know what torment this is, but I can only see it, in myself anyway, as the process by which faith is deepened. A faith that just accepts is a child’s faith and all right for children, but eventually you have to grow religiously as every other way, though some never do.” (>>)