Have a PBS mind in an MTV world.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

And when you're through wishing you were more, then you can settle back and let your Father breathe.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.

A curse on those who fear wine: it's because they have evil thoughts and they are afraid that wine will loosen their tongues.

Oh, what is man! The most egoistical of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who cannot believe otherwise than that the earth revolves, the sun shines and death reaps for him alone - an ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass!