To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

Nobody can hear you read music.

I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.

I was an illegal immigrant.