To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.