Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

It is better to consult God’s instruction than seek your own ways.

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.

Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.