All human eyes have longing in them.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

If the world needs to end on its own choice, it would have end by now.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

Gabrielle Union is my best friend.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

patience is an integral part of talent.