But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?

We have God's joy in our blood.

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

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.

The world needs people who save lives.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.