When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

A life without having loved someone is a life never lived.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.