The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.