Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.