We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all - they're long lost dance partners. I don't divide the world up into Christians and other people - we are all human beings, brothers and sisters, and we embrace truth wherever we find it, whether that's in a lab, a field or a cathedral. Because sometimes you need a scientist and sometimes you need a poet.

Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.