To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

The day will happenwhether or not you get up

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

Build on past successes, be grateful for what you do have, and know that this, too, shall pass. It's only for the now. Whatever we're facing, it's not forever.

The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.

God's first creature, which was light.

I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.