salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves. - Alan Watts

[P]eace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love.
No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, open-ness — an act of trust in the unknown.

But God is always found where He is least expected, and no one would have thought of looking for Him in the cowshed of a country inn.