That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.

Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.