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Mother Nature is not sweet.
Religion is a mixed blessing.
I prepare for death by living.
I believe that God is very real.
I am a child of the 21st century.
I experience God as the power of love.
I see Christianity in very humanistic terms.
When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.
I can only give away the love that I have received.
The way you become divine is to become wholly human
The way you become divine is to become wholly human.
What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.
Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another
Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.
It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.
I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.
Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.
Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.
There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.
The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.
Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.
Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.
I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.
I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.
I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.
I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.
Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.
I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.
When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.
I know Jerry [Falwell] fairly well, and he's probably not bright enough to recognize all of the implications of what he said.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.