To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

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.