A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.