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I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

God will use us for his purposes, but it takes a certain kind of listening.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.