In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.

Reality is like a fine wine, ” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...

The shadow proves the sunshine.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Dogs don't make mistakes.

Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

I'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.