Pete Seeger

"If you are a musician (artist), it means you're going to die unfulfilled...you'll spend the rest of your life on an upward learning curve, because you'll never be as good as you can be.  You'll die an apprentice, a student, and there's nothing better than that.   To have achieved the best you can ever be - that's a tragedy."

Garrison Keilor

"Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people."

Amy Grant

"The love and mercy of God is attractive to everybody.  It's important when you're communicating that with people not to clutter up the message with all of our own personal baggage."

Richard Rohr

"One thing for sure is that healthy religion is always telling 'us' to change ourselves instead of giving us ammunition to try to change others."

Benjamin Disraeli

"It is better to remain silent and have people say, 'I wonder what he is thinking', than to speak up and have people say, 'I wonder why he spoke'."

Jim Wallis

"Left and Right are political categories.  When people try to fit their faith into those categories, it distorts their faith."

John Calvin

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

Abba Anthony

"A spiritual pilgrim should keep her lips from flapping loosely, even when the subject is scripture or religion, or theology.  Silence is the better way."

Joseph Campbell

"A vital person vitalizes."

Abba Anthony

"Whoever you may be always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it."

Rumi

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.  I'll meet you there."

Rumi

"We are born with wings.  Why prefer to crawl through life?"

"Let what you love be what you do."

"Love is the goal of all other goals."