I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.

I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

We want to live in ambiguity. This is the human condition.

There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.

With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

Let go of toxic control, in order to regain healthy control.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

Don't lose sight of user delight.

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.