I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

The more we try to control the things outside of us the more we lose control of our mind.

This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.

I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.