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

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

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.

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.

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More." That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.