If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

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.

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

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.

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.