The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

Reality is like a fine wine, ” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Of course the sexiest thing a girl can do is not complain about her body.

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other...I don't know. I can just tell.

What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self.