A climate in which belief may flourish

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Faith begins where religious pretension ends

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!

I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.