The moment we begin to believe we have got something about God figured out with certainty is the moment we can be sure we are no longer speaking about God.

…the weapon he used to transform the world was love.

Wonder is the antidote to religion.

How easy it is for us to demonise from a distance. But when we stand face to face with our supposed enemy, it is hard to hate.

…Jesus spent more time eating, drinking and lounging with 'tax collectors and sinners' than explaining the Roman Roadmap to Heaven or undermining their belief system.

What are we to do when we seem to grow out of God? Or at least the understanding of God that we grew up with?

Allowing myself to wander off into the vast jungles of religion and spirituality has often led to me stumbling upon life altering new ways of thinking, living, and being.

But it's only when we allow ourselves to get lost that we can have the opportunity to find and be found.

…those who are the most confident are often those who don't have any fun.

If they're not willing to explore beyond the realm of their safety, certainty, and comfort, they will never know if their fantasies are true.

…for exploring beyond the boundaries that I had been taught to stay within.

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?