Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

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

The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.