I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Don't spend on your pleasures. Invest in your capabilities. Get better!!

Let’s downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.

...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.