We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.