Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself
to who, in truth, you are.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I
slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always
known.
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not
one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith
in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use
them that counts.
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and
battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and
the result of our failures in love.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were
grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept
vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.