1. “What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.”
2. “Live life to it’s fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.”
3. “I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious ad keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.”
4. “I think the worst way to go is to have somebody thing they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.”
5. “I prepare for death by living.”
6. “It’s almost inevitable that we become religious people the question is, what kid of religion is it?”
7. “I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.”
8. “I’ve never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.”
9. “You can’t have a world where 50 percent if the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.”
10. “There’s no way a human being can escape his or her human-ness to be able to imagine God. We can talk about how we’ve experienced God, not what or who God is.”
11. “Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of te future.”
12. “I think one of the things we’ve got to look out is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.”
13. “The greater danger… in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God’s especially unchosen.”
14. “Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.”
15. “God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.”
16. “It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.”
17. “Mother Nature is not sweet.”
18. “I experience God as the power of love.”
19. “.I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies”
20. “I can only give away the love that I have received.”
21. “So much organized religion, in my opinion, end up being life-denying.”
22. “Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. it doesn’t. That’s magic, that’s not God. Sometimes, you’re just in the wrong place at the wrong time. “
23. “Religion is mixed blessing.”
24. “Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.”
25. “We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that’s the best way to go.”
26. “It’s just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.”
27. “Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don’t think that’s the case.”
28. “I believe that God is very real.”
29. “I want the traditional family upheld, but I don’t want it upheld to the detriment of other people.”
30. Terrorism is a real despair. these are people for whom life has bee n so negative that they’re willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies”.”
