Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole

Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Obviously I pray every day there's less casualty.

DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.