The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat

People really do not change....they exist...

Being alive and helping others to stay alive is the greatest personal success!

Keep trying is success and giving up is failure.

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.

Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.