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.

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 .

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.

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.

Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Let me just tell you this: I love polyester.

Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.