With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

My mind reels with sarcastic replies.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."

If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends.

if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.