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Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
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To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
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I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.
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If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.
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I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.
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I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!
