Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died, and that theology was very influential in England in his lifetime. I think Shakespeare was attentive to questions raised by it, about human nature, history, reality itself. I find the two literatures to be mutually illuminating.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.