Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.