Sublime

The ‘heart’ in the biblical sense is not the inner life, but the whole man in relation to God.

the only way to live fully is to live in the present, to live where you are, to bless where you are. Our lives—personally and communally—are bound up with our locale. So we need to live locally,

though it is highly anthropomorphic, the entire biblical tradition tells us that if we seek to understand God – something we can never fully do by any act of the imagination – the best way to do so is to reflect on what it is to be a parent, bringing new life into being through an act of love, caring for it, protecting it while it is young, and

The Christ in one’s own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of another Christian. The heart in one’s heart is uncertain; the Word is sure.

At every moment and in every situation God is the intimate, attentive and encouraging friend.

if you are wandering, there is another—at least one, and often more—who is seasoned and experienced and who waits for you to knock at the door, rap on stone, eat a pear, or just show up, in order to announce your arrival in the underworld.

Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for the moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and that if they have not learned to know Him they will

“Something supposed, an idea of another world. And if there was this other world, how would God show Himself?”