It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.