Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

Active-awareness combined with daily active-effort will compound to make a significant difference.

That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

Know what you're talking about.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

This is a great day for France!

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.