I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.