The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?

You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.