“If the Bible didn’t show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.”

As man acts, God reacts.

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.

Everything above and below is one unity.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

I am going out one door, and shall go through another.

From every human being there rises a light.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I’m extremely comfortable with my style.

Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.

One reason outfielders don’t have stronger arms might be they don’t practice as much as we did.

I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.

I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

Google might be doping the horses.

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.