“To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.”

To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.

In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

The awe of God is wisdom.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?

It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time

I don’t really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.

Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely

I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”

And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past

Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie