Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

I looked down by chance, and went on passionately staring by choice, at my own crossed legs," the writer and philosopher recollected. "Those folds in the trousers ? what a labyrinth of endlessly significant complexity! And the texture of the gray flannel ? how rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous.

Distance reminds us that there's a lot more to the universe than just people. It reminds us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there.

In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which 'knower, known and knowledge are made one.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

there has never been a revival of religion so long as the order of service has been strictly followed. ...we are to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Communication is what the Holy Spirit excels in. When we don't know what to say, He does. When we don't know what to ask for, He does. When we don't know how to express the depths of our feelings, He does.

I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

In other words, the new understanding imparted by the Bible comes from a source lying beyond our ability to frame questions.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.