At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.