This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement.

Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay, " Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it.

God is helpless in our area of ignorance.

The place we get lost is the very place that we're found, all we need to do is put one foot in front of the other.

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

Great humorists are great insulters.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.