We spend so much time searching and longing for solid ground, only to discover it's better than that. There's Spirit. You try this, you try that. You throw yourself into it, and you hold it loosely. You give it everything you have as you acknowledge that this is what we're doing now, who knows what will come next?

But maybe all of these questions are missing the point. Let's set aside all of the saying and doing and being and cutting holes in roofs and assume it's more simple than that. As some would say, "Just believe.

Spirit is often lurking in whatever it is you most dislike.

A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.

The spirit of dialectical fearlessness is not so easily acquired; and the sense of isolation which remains despite the conviction of right, the sadness of the parting from admired and trustworthy [or trusted?] authorities, is the line of demarcation which marks the threshold of its acquirement.

The heart of everything is faith. Without it, life has no meaning. With it, everything is ennobled.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.