I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?