“It’s very important, no matter what you may do professionally, to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children’s play is not just kids’ stuff. Children’s play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.”

1   You who live in the shelter of the Most High,            who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,  2   will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress;            my God, in whom I trust.”  3   For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler            and from the deadly pestilence;  4   he will cover you with…

1At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” 3He said to them, “Have you not read…

51Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and…

8   The LORD determined to lay in ruins            the wall of daughter Zion;       he stretched the line;            he did not withhold his hand from destroying;       he caused rampart and wall to lament;            they languish together. 9   Her gates have sunk into the ground;            he has ruined and broken her bars;       her king and princes are among the…

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”

“I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things, particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things.”

1   The LORD is king; let the peoples tremble!            He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!  2   The LORD is great in Zion;            he is exalted over all the peoples.  3   Let them praise your great and awesome name.            Holy is he!  4   Mighty King, lover of justice,            you have established equity;       you have executed justice …

25At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; 26yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 27All things have been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son…