Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.

It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds the sun is shining Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall - Some days must be dark and dreary.

When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.

The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.

Next time someone tells you 'never,' remember that means 'not for at least one hour.'

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?