I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

I have wondered about time all my life.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.