Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.