Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.

The blessings of the Lord is our greatest wealth.

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Maybe love can kill better than hate.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.