... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

She's not stumbling, she's not lost. She's simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her soul.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.

See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way.

What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.