Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

Change is uncomfortable and awkward at first. It has a ripping effect on those who refuse to go along with it. It is not fixed by crying, or worrying, or wallowing in self-pity and mental anguish.

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'animals', but on closer inspection we can clearly see that this is in fact, an insult to animals.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.