Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

One of the strengths of the belief in Antinous was its appeal to the most sensitive and inward of mystical natures as well as to the exuberant, joyous and ecstatic sides of human experience.

If there is a construction or a pathway in the spirit to be made, it is the way of godliness.

Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.

Don't see where people are today and think they have always been there

If youth was sold in a bottle of hair dye, we would all get in line.

Families ought to be noisy.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.