Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity

The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.

Water is becoming a very scarce resource on a daily basis. Therefore, we need to teach communities to preserve it since we can't afford to live without water.

True love doesn't expect anything but it does gives everything

At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.