We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now dawning upon the world the magnitude of the action that the Soviets undertook in invading Afghanistan.

You just have to have a simple faith.

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.