It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

Answer suffering with kindness.

Normal. She wanted normal and so did I. "You know what's normal?""What?" She wiped away her remaining tears. "Calculus.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

All art is infested by other art.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.