“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or doing laundry.”

“... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all”

“Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.”

“The logic of cross and resurrection, of the new creation which gives shape to all truly Christian living, points in a different direction. And one of the central names for that direction is joy: the joy of relationships healed as well as enhanced, the joy of belonging to the new creation, of finding not what we already had but what god was longing to give us.”

“If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.”

“We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.”