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

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.

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.

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

Every morning is a sacred new breath.

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.

Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don’t mind being a bit like you. I hope you don’t mind being a bit like me.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!

I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.