I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

When I see a non-yogi [benefit], that's when it really affects my life.

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”

In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.