Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

Faith is obedience, nothing else.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully.

When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you.

I do have to prioritize my end-of-the-world documents.

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.

Is that right?” she murmured.

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.