The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

The main strength of the subconscious mind is that it stores all of a person’s beliefs

Use what you have got to create your world.

The life can be easy, beautiful, enjoyable and sensational, but it is never amazing without you.

I have not yet begun to fight!

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.

Being a member of the Church has never placed any roadblocks in my personal and professional life.

We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.