What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.