The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

No pressure is greater than God's power.

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.

O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem [O happy fault, which has deserved to have such and so mighty a Redeemer].

When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there.