In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to conservative churches, which, for all their social benightedness, nevertheless do present their congregations with a different view of reality. Second, they are going to Asian religions. Third, they are going to the New Age, which when I'm feeling cynical I refer to as "New Age frivolity," because some of it is rather flaky.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion.

It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.