I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.

The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.