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.

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

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.

We cannot really think in one way and act in another.