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

I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it eloquently, say it truthfully, say it honestly, that when I hear it said in ways that none of those adverbs would describe I find myself so repelled that it almost shuts my mind off.

It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.

... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.