When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.