The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

...a deep and even paranoid suspicion continues to disparage higher criticism of the Bible, as if someone could publish a paper that would unravel God. (p. 151)

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

In the beginning, the call of God was not propositional. It was experiential. (p. 10)

Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

It is very difficult to tell the truth.