Frederick Buechner quotes
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 peace and joy finally for you too.
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.