If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in the world and in ourselves can separate us finally from that joy, because whatever else it means to say that God created us in His image, I think it means that even when we cannot believe in Him, even when we feel most spiritually bankrupt and deserted by Him, His mark is deep within us. We have God's joy in our blood.

I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.