I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

One can always find hands for a work of destruction.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.