“I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.”

“Dear God,Reveal to me through stories something of what it is like to walk around in someone else's shoes.Show me something about myself in the stories I read, something that needs changing, a thought, a feeling or attitude.Deliver me from myself, O God, and from the parachial and sometimes prejudiced views I have of other people, other nations, other races, other religions.Enlarge by heart with a story, and change me by the characters I meet there.May some of the light from their lives spill over into mine, giving me illumination where there was once ignorance, compassion where there was once contempt.”

“We reach for God in many ways. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them He reaches us.”

“While we have been pursuing God he has been rushing toward us with reckless love arms flung wide to hug us home.”

“It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.”

“Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.”

“The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.”