I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.

I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.

Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose!

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.

Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.