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.

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

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.

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

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.