To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.