Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

The only difference between me and a madman is that he has the certification

And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

Typical" Kisten said, his eyes dramatically sad. "Try to do something nice for a person, cheer her up, and what do I get? Abused and robbed.

People go into things for the wrong reasons.

Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.

I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff...unless we are standing by a cliff.