The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.

There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

It is the winners who write history - their way.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.