If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

LIFE IS A JOURNEYTO FIND THE PEOPLEWEIRD LIKE YOU. —ATTICUS

I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not invited. (Bones)

Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.

After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

You fool! You're 30 cents away from having a quarter!