Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

In its purest form, a union becomes part of our very essence. And when that bond is broken, our essence is forever changed.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

I dont rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.