Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.