What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.
The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.