Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[Curb your enthusiasm, 2016]

...unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet...(from silent moments)

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

I'm not a morning person.

Strong convictions precede great actions.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.