I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

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

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

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

In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.