It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.

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

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.

When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.

I think they should make Twilight closets and all the cast members can walk out of them.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.