The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there's nothing much to regret.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

Life is generally pretty damn amazing if you let it be.