... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She was who she was - she'd been born this way, Why should she have to change who she was to satisfy someone else?

The present moment is significant not as the bridge between past and future but by reason of its contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours if we are capable of receiving them

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

There is a miracle in every new beginning

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.