I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

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