I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement.

Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay, " Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.