There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

Just feel forgiveness in your heart. The universe will hear you and that will be enough.

Not even a thousand tears can wash away the feelings I still have for you.

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.