Why bad things happen to good people

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.