Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

I'm not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians.