“Stories make it possible for us to be human.”

“It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.”

“Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.”

“Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one's own prestige or sense of security.”

“The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.”

“There was only one possible answer, as plain as it was disturbing.That she was not, in fact, human.”

“Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.”