It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.

In order to make friends you must first be friendly

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.