Religion is pointing toward the moon

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life.

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tensionAnd not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.

When I create characters for the world of others I realize how much I have yet to experience.

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

I don't know if it's a stare or if it's something I do with my eyes when I'm really focused in on someone or something. Apparently it comes out every now and then.

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.