What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back, there have been glimpses I've had. Sometimes literally a glimpse which made me suspect the presence of something extraordinary and beyond the realm of the immediate. That's what I think a lot of what my writing has been, my preaching has been - trying to listen to that voice again, to see those moments again.

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.

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

Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.