Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

We live by faith or we do not live at all. Either we venture or we vegetate. If we venture, we do so by faith, simply because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. We risk marriage on faith or we stay single. We prepare for a profession by faith or we give up before we start. By faith, we move mountains of opposition or we're stopped by molehills.

The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.

Trust is letting go of needing to know all the details before you open your heart.

Some folks run from the doubt and go backward. You try for all the spiritual Band-Aids you can find... when actually, what you need to do is press forward, to accept those doubts and work through them.

All I can tell you is faith is just the beginning of a long, difficult journey.

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Paul crawled through the sphincter