Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than... →
Meister Eckhart
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Every creature is a word of God.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of... →
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not... →
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in... →
Billy Eckstine
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
Jenny Eclair