Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of Your universe. Delight me to see how Your Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not His, to the Father through the features of men's faces. Each day enrapture me with Your marvelous things without number. I do not ask to see the reason for it all; I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

Instead of expanding our capacity for life, joy, and mystery, religion often contracts it. As systematic theology advances, the sense of wonder declines. The paradoxes, contradictions, and ambiguities of life are codified, cabined, and confined within the pages of a leather-bound book. Instead of a love story the Bible is viewed as a detailed manual of directions.

Doctors, lawyers, and psychologists study to become qualified professionals who are paid to know what to do. A well-trained theologian or minister is only able to point out the universal tendency to narrow God down to our own little conceptions and expectations, and to call for an open mind and heart for God to be revealed.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We

What are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

Chi cerca l'infinito non ha che da chiudere gli occhi.

And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.

When enough fiction is written and enough scientific hypotheses are proposed, sooner or later there will be accidental concordances.