Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God's and we are in His image.

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.

A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars

The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.

What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

...our minds are driven to answer questions that far transcend the bounds of our own lives.

God resides most strongly and evidently where science has not yet progressed to go... And if this is true then it follows that God resides everywhere and in everything.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.

History is the best guide to the future.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.

The world rests on principles.

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.