My commitment to the Bible [is my] source of progressive values.

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.

When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.

The words 'God is love' conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. 'He who doesn't love [his neighbor] doesn't love God, for God is love.'

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.

I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.

Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.

It's beginning to feel like there is no room in America for anyone who is not a fundamentalist Christian.

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.

When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.

The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.