The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.
Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.
Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to shape our communal remembering.
There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers
My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
