Theology must have the character of a living procession.

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 more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, competent, and fulfilled.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Hugging makes a tender heart.

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

The moon shows the truth of things.

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide whether it's going to work, and then you turn around and you've been married 45 years.

You pick out the big men! I'll make them brave!

I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.