He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.

There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

It is the winners who write history - their way.

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.

But just for a minute. I won't be gone long and if she wakes up before I get back tell her that I love her.

Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment.

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.