I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Resist the short term temptation of procrastination

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.

Who is more foolish the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons.

The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world!”

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.