For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants, ' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

Self-esteem comes from not letting unrelated external occurrences be tied to your own self-worth.

If you know how blessed you are, you will never ever complain.

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.

Genocide of the soul occurs when everyone else expects conformity based on false beliefs, that we should all think the same, act the same and aspire to be the same.---Tammy Wooster

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.