I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless; therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.

It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

Five friends I had and two of them snakes.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

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