To live in the present moment is a miracle.
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality. . . The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.
We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.
There is no right way to do a wrong thing.
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.
In the end, we have nothing to lose by opening our hearts.
In thy foul throat thou liest.
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.