“We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.”

“To accomplish great things we must live as though we had never to die.”

“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”

“That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.”

“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

“We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living”

“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”

“We haven't accepted — we can't really believe — that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.”

“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”

“We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.”