Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement.

Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay, " Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.

Na ca mi-a slabit vederea. Te rogi atata timp sa ti se arate Dumnezeu si cand ai ajuns langa El, nu-L mai vezi.

When we feel the clown, when we have been played, if we have lived by heart, acted out of compassion, we are the substance of the play, rather than merely being played.

If they listen to the military people, we probably wouldn't be having an ISIS right now.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!