If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat

Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.

Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.