So as a Christian, I am free to claim the good, the true, the holy, wherever and whenever I find it. I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

You can capture a butterfly, and pin its wings down to study the colors and shape and design, but the moment that butterfly is still and you're able to make the most precise and detailed observations about that butterfly is the moment the butterfly can't fly anymore.

Sometimes we've accepted rules and codes and limits without realizing it.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I'm glad of any political freedom they give me, but what I'm interested in is not political freedom. I'm interested in the liberties I take.

Such is the uncaged progress of the bear. The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me. Man acts more like the poor bear in a cage, That all day fights a nervous inward rage, His mood rejecting all his mind suggests. He paces back and forth and never rests The toenail click and shuffle of his feet, The telescope at one end of his beat, And at the other end the microscope, Two instruments of nearly equal hope, And in conjunction giving quite a spread.

God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.