This isn’t just ‘the way things are.’ This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

Don’t worry about anything – pray about everything instead.

The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, “Look how honest I am.

If, after all, there is no truth, how could it be true that there is no truth? If there is no absolute morality, how can you condemn the morality of considering my culture better than another? Relativism made no sense, as Shakespeare clearly saw.

In God, the life of the flesh became the story of the spirit. I loved that story, no matter what.

You cannot know yourself alone, any more than you can see your own face without a mirror.

Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?

In the darkness, I had been afraid that he was evil. At dawn, I realized he had been my friend and guardian, watching over me all night long.

I’m a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts – it’s what we do.

If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough. All.