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

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.