Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

Internet, " she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

The peace within is the power of the Holy Spirit.

Fulfil my wishes, Obey my commands.

I can't imagine a life without a story.

She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

If trusting in Christ is the only way to be saved one has to wonder about infants, small children, and those who are child-like who are incapable of exercising faith in Christ.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.