Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

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.

The world needs people who save lives.