I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou 'cause I'm not!

If I were to say 'God why me?' about the bad things then I should have said 'God why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them and so they bring us nothing but sit and sing awhile upon the roof and then fly away.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books for they speak with the voice of God.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

If you want to make God laugh tell him about your plans.

The Bible is not man's word about God but God's word about man.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries is reasonable.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

As children as we learn what things are we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults entirely submerged in words and concepts we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger better and better! No question about it it's the greatest game there is!

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

I learn from thinking about the future what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

To get nostalgic about other people's music or even about your own makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.