Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

We all do stuff we think is right. Irrespective rules, drama or money.

To imbibe so much quiet is to become the music inside it.

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

Learn your lessons quickly and move on.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.