I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

If it is a loving environment, the cage can be a home.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

What does it mean, being a woman?

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?