Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

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

... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.