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.

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

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.

Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.

No writer ever puts into words which he or she thinks is unnecessary

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.