. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.

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.