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

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.

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

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

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.

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.

One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.

The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

I want a girl who doesn't know that she's beautiful, so i have an excuse to let her know all the time