When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

I have good friends who listen to me for hours, the walls of my room

Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young.

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.