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

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

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.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.