Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are

If that were God’s plan, it’s a bad bargain; I don’t want to have to deal with a God like that…My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple...

Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I’m too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face...

Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be...

God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don’t think we are capable of doing.

(Many religions, from Judaism to Zoroastrianism, use light and fire as symbols for the presence of God, perhaps because light, like God, cannot be seen but permits us to see everything there is, perhaps because...

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?…The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to...

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.