We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.