God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

Lovers re-create the world.

There can be no belief if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important.

I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that.

Evils have their comfort, good none can support.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

I'd love to sponsor a dolphin.

Im a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.