Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

When you forgive, you do not change the past, but you change your future".

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.

I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die