Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.