Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

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

Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.

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

Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.