while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

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.

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

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.

Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world, and known it, through the eyes of love.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

I was taking the bad boy off the market for good.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

I love a guy that can be emotional and get in touch with his feminine side. It's really sweet. It says a lot about a man to me.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

I'm not religious, and I feel that has to do with me being uprooted so many times in my life that I've explored many religions and sentiments from many different families basically across the globe.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.