If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

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.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.