There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]