I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Because if works doesn't mean that it's right, once can be successfully wrong~Dad to his Son...(Psalms 37:7)

And to my soul mate, who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

Children, to be illustrious is sad.

Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.

Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.

And ar'n't I a woman?

'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.