We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

You have to risk your heart to find love. It’s the price we pay for a chance at bliss.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

All those 'bloodys' was a veritable cornucopia of emotion for Barrons.

God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.