To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and
thorns in the flesh were religious experiences; to Judas Iscariot,
the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
"I want to know how God created this world.
I am not interested in this or that phenomenon,
in the spectrum of this or that element.
I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and
if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for,
they think the whole thing is a fraud.
"You have a combination of legitimate and
deeply foul religious objection with political opportunism and
part of this growing problem between the western world and Islamic world."
On LOVE in all its manifestations: romantic love,
spiritual love, love as a source of creativity etc.
Love quotes and links to more quotes on love.
Love is never as simple, or as complex, as we think it is...
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar,
that when we see the image of indescribable and
unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery,
the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.
I could not say I believe. I know!
I have had the experience of being gripped
by something that is stronger than myself,
something that people call God.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars
abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought,
religion not least of all.
No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
"One of the things that really interested me about
this script was the whole idea of personal demons
versus religious demons, and how differently things can be perceived."