Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.

It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it.

If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.