It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Our worship must be directed to the One who holds the world in His hands.

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.