We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.

Create an atmosphere in which anything is possible.

Now is the dwelling place of God himself.

The danger of a dream is the courage to conquer.

Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.