In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.

To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."

In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

Five friends I had and two of them snakes.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.