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.

A climate in which belief may flourish

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.

Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Brains are not everything.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people. Elections should just be a bi-product.

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

The only way to always be relevant is to focus on what's eternal. Everything in style will soon be out of style.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.