To some of us, raised and trained in allowing the Bible to absorb the world (that is, to "see" all of reality through the biblical story), the Bible is quite clear about all really important matters.

Before saying 'I disagree' be sure you can say 'I understand.'

We're creatures, so we have limits.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry.

As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true humanism.

The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures to assume otherwise.

We're created in God's image, but our souls or spirits are not offshoots of God's own Spirit - as New Age teachers would have us believe.

The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

I've never done anything by halves.

Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.