My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

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

What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.

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

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

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.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.