M. Scott Peck Quotes

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

I'm a centrist.

I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans.

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

There are two things you find in the middle of the road—a moderate and a dead skunk.

I'm quite moderate.

I'm progressive, and I'm practical.

I am not a judgemental kind of person.

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

I'm a very liberal person.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

I like the 'Alive' part. Now I've made it. Wait until you see the roles I could take after this. You're going to see my gut hanging over, plus 22lbs. It'll be a whole new kind of sexy!

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become.

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

I once was the walrus, now I'm John.

I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.