I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in every literal word was the divinely inspired, inerrant word of God. Have these people simply not read the text? Are they hopelessly misinformed? Is there a different Bible? Are they blinded by a combination of ego needs and naïveté?

I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children. I quoted him in my book. It's a fantastic statement.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

Religion is a mixed blessing.