Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Heaven in not out there, it is in your blissful heart.

Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God’s Word.

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.