Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?

Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

Life lends itself to fear.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.