Imagine that Christianity is about loving God.

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.

God’s dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.

Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.

People remember stories much better than they remember a straight list of teachings.

It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.

The only way I’d ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard

You begin to understand your personality, your response, and the functions of your body, heart and mind into different situations, events and with different people, with the inward attention.

I sat and reflected on the situation I had facedI needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask...But I need to know, How was this to be apart of my destiny?

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you

If you pay too much attention to the criticism of the one who is inferior, then you must endure the constraints of the plane to which you have descended without feeling hurt.

There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.