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.

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.

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.

Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.