Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

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.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

people don't get to choose who they fell in love with. they only get to choose who they stay in love with..

Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.