8   The LORD determined to lay in ruins            the wall of daughter Zion;       he stretched the line;            he did not withhold his hand from destroying;       he caused rampart and wall to lament;            they languish together. 9   Her gates have sunk into the ground;            he has ruined and broken her bars;       her king and princes are among the…

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”

“I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.”

1   The LORD is king; let the peoples tremble!            He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!  2   The LORD is great in Zion;            he is exalted over all the peoples.  3   Let them praise your great and awesome name.            Holy is he!  4   Mighty King, lover of justice,            you have established equity;       you have executed justice …

25At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; 26yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 27All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son…

41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory. 42So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. 43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is…

1   How lonely sits the city            that once was full of people!       How like a widow she has become,            she that was great among the nations!       She that was a princess among the provinces            has become a vassal. 2   She weeps bitterly in the night,            with tears on her cheeks;       among all her lovers            she has no…

“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”