A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

God has no other hands than ours.

It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.