Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

Life is the greatest grace.

To serve humankind is service of being.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

You have to love yourself, not in an egotistical way, but if you love yourself, everyone else will love you.

Real creativity comes only out of silence.