...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.