Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Be fearless like a newborn that is born with love and hope.

Your targets empower you as they allow yourself to bring out the best within you.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum

There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

I don't hate what I love. I love what I love and I hate what I hate.

If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.