The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

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.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

It is idle to await unanimity.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.