We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.