Stories Are Verbal Acts Of Hospitality.

Prayer Is The Disciplined Refusal To Act Before God Acts.

In High School I Was Very Much Involved In Poetry. You Cannot Read A Poem Quickly. There's Too Much Going On There. There Are Rhythms And Alliterations. You Have To Read Poetry Slow, Slow, Slow To Absorb It All.

That's The Whole Spiritual Life. It's Learning How To Die. And As You Learn How To Die, You Start Losing All Your Illusions, And You Start Being Capable Now Of True Intimacy And Love.

I Didn't Write Because I Had Anything To Say, But In Order To Find Out What There Was To Say.

I Cannot Fail To Call The Congregation To Worship God, To Listen To His Word, To Offer Themselves To God.