We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.

God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world.

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.

Leo, ” Jason said, “you’re weird.”“Yeah, you tell me that a lot.” Leo grinned. “But if you don’t remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...!

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

I've got about three minutes to get ready in the morning before dropping my kids at school and going to the office. But even with limited time, I still want to look natural and pretty.

It’s my brain. I know exactly what I have to do, but if I’m not using my brain, I’m not doing the things my coach is telling me.

I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.

Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.

Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine.

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.