This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.

Techno is everything you haven't imagined yet

Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

Accident is veiled necessity.

Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Gwen?" "Yes." "You know why we have to be together, don't you?" "..." "I'm your selkie.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.