Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

My favorite toy or game has been the ocean. My real passion is for saltwater.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.