My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.
A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world
Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.
If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement. . . has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. . . It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today. . . But then came the First World War. . . What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.
Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.
God cannot know himself without me.
You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice.
We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.