"It has always seemed odd to me how people are convinced that knowing and experiencing God is grounded in correct theology. What did people do before there was a Bible from which theological propositions could be formulated? Somehow God and humans made due without a well-defined belief system in place. How did that work? For instance, in the book of Genesis, a man named Enoch, only a few generations removed from Adam and Eve, is described as a man who “walked with God.” Maybe a well-defined set of truth propositions about God isn’t necessary for knowing and experiencing God.”

- Jim Palmer, Wide Open Spaces: Beyond Paint-by-Number Christianity

"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We 
are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with 
books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those 
books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which 
they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the 
arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to 
me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."--Einstein

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. - Pearl Buck

"I am not interested, my friend, in your religion or if you are religious or not. What really is important to me is your behavior in front of your peers, family, work, community, and in front of the world. Remember, the Universe is the echo of our actions and our thoughts."

~Dalai Lama

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. --Elie Wiesel

It's really hard to call Republicans a political party anymore...

They're more like a religious cult built on the idolatry of wealth than anything else.

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

- A.A. Milne