Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

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

It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

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 the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.