Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The strength of the soul is a strong spirit.

Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Everybody in life is a chameleon.

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.