Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it’s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

Peace doesn’t deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome.

If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.

No form of revenge could have made me hate you any less. If I had cut the two of you to shreds with a knife, I think I would have hated the little pieces of you just the same.

Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.