Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities".

We stand in the awe of God’s greatness.

Hillary Clinton's nasty, but I can be nastier than she ever can be.

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.