Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.