Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

To transform home is to transform the world.

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.