The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers... (Matthew 12:48)

Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.