It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.

And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.

One should dance while one still can.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.