You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady o...
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is p...
I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Go where your best prayers take you.
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with...
Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is pe...
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world bu...
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.