Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

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.

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

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.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

The Church needs young people because they have vision for the future of the church.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.