People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.

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