Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.

God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.