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.

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

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

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.