My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

As time goes on, thing do get made up.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

Those who believe in justice find silence too great a burden to carry.

Don’t waste your precious time in worrying about someone taking your place. You know God has already planned something for you. Focus on your job and you will reach the place you deserve!

before men could speak they enjoyed confounding another with signsthey enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an imageas much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

Exceptional people learn that doing their best is all they can do.