Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.