A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants, ' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Love is talkative passion.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

If our presidents, or potential presidents, don't know this or don't articulate [an America ideal], that's a blown opportunity. The president can teach as well as lead.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.