To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.