The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

The biggest problem comes when you start adding to your problems more and more + having your own. This is the time when chaos takes a place in your life.

Many have said, “Follow my steps” I say to you, create your own paths, and follow no one, live, risk it all, die and be free.

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

I will shoot on film as long as they make it.

Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.