We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

God uses language to create and command us.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.

Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.

The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

I am very simple and kind of a man to be a politician.

If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.

If you lose the Spirit, you are lost.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?