People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God.

They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink