Faith is never identical with piety.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Every man is a hypocrite

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.