A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.

What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

You are at enmity with yourself.

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

And ever so slowly, she sits up, giving herself another chance. She realizes that nobody can make it better. She has to make it better for herself.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.

I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.