Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

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.

God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

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.

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God’s voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.

Go where your best prayers take you.