Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

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.

Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem...

The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.

A friend's only gift is himself.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING! (according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping)

Satan has his sights on the United States of America.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.