The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

Reality is like a fine wine, ” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.

In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

It's a process.

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It ain't made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.

Maybe Putin wanted to fire Medvedev , but how is he supposed to do that after my film?

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.