"And when [he] said what he said, nobody around him responded, 'Wow, where'd you get that idea?!' ...because it was common knowledge in his day..." < more>

"Even his house servants, his butler and his chauffeur wouldn't acknowledge knowing him. You know, you could expect that of your lawyer, but your chauffeur?! Your gardener...?!" < more>

"And he would have named it after the ability to control things... like saying 'Wall Street' or 'LaSalle Street' and it's the power that goes with the concentration of economic and social activity in a metro area, and [he] controls it all..." < more>

"And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority..." < more>

"Built according to the solar calendar, it is placed so that shadows cast at the fall and spring equinoxes are said to look like a snake crawling down the steps, similar to the carved serpent at the top..." < more>

"Working effectually means it gets inside of you and produces its work in you so that when your feet hit the ground, you're off doing what... you should be doing..." < more>

"You can get hundreds and scores of people, and big movements and big things, and it looks powerful, and it looks big, and looks great, but if it was gathered on some basis other than the simple manifestation of the truth..." < more>

"You know, when there's a lot of voices, it's hard to hear any one, but when there hadn't been one for a long time, that one stands out..." < more>

"And it's not bad to have traditions in an assembly, or things you do in a group, or some common interest or camaraderie..." < more>

"You're taught by denominational traditions that every time you see that word 'baptize' it's a water rite... but it's not..." < more>

"You see that's what we call 'wooden swearing.' Wooden swearing is the little old lady who, instead of cussing when she gets mad, just goes over to the door and kicks the fire out of the door..." < more>

"You know, and I've watched this for years, classic pictures of Daniel in the lions den or Jacob wrestling by the brook, and in them you'll see somebody's got their hand just like that. It's too pervasive for there simply to be just nothing to it..." < more>

"The world's in confusion and doesn't have any answers. The answer to the question of suffering isn't hard to get; it's just hard to believe. We like it to be deep..." < more>

"If, therefore, anyone wants to maintain that the New Testament has an anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish) bias, then we would just as dogmatically and logically contend that the Old Testament has an even stronger anti-Jewish bias...!" < more>

"...when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk... a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act... culture-death is a clear possibility..." < more>

"That clears up all of the Calvinist/Armenian fighting- fussing- fuming- heady- high- minded- philosophical speculations and all that other stuff you get involved in..." < more>

"'I prefer the term 'male escort.' If I was strictly a prostitute, people would probably think I was working the street. And I'm not. These men were coming to me with really big emotional issues, and I was comforting them...'" < more>

"You're no good, your momma and your daddy aren't any good, your kin folks aren't any good. You're all just going to bust hell wide open. There's no hope for you..." < more>

"It means something does exactly the same thing in that dimension that it does in our dimension. So when it talks about fire, it's not talking about a campfire out there burning up sausages or spareribs.... [...] it torments, but it doesn't consume..." < more>

"I throw a couple of hadiths at you, and you throw a couple of hadiths at me, and that is the way we do Islamic law... It's like any moron can do that..." < more>

"He was so immediately smitten with her that when he got up to shake her hand at the end of her job interview he knocked over the trash can next to his desk... A year later, they married..." < more>

"He didn't just walk in off the street and say, 'You, you, you and you'; it was after an all-night vigil..." < more>

"...he's sharp, he's sly, he's conniving. He's crafty enough and powerful enough to keep the lid on the pot, but it's always jiggling..." < more>

"He lingers over the narrative and you just sort of flow along with it. You're interested in the human side of what's going on..." < more>

"You're doing something good and you feel good about doing it. It gratifies the flesh. It doesn't produce any help. That's why people get enticed by the law..." < more>

"In our day, with the use of narcotics, people don't die violent deaths anymore because they drug them up. But for most of human history, people didn't have those kinds of (escapes) to get around the consciousness of dying..." < more>

"People say, 'Well, what you need to do is know yourself.' Really?! I mean, I know me too well...!" < more>

"There's no doubt that this guy's got a special connection. They're all dressed alike. They're in the family. Same family..." < more>

"... she'd seen those gods fly in and land -- do things, marvelous things, and fly off and come back. And she said, `Boy, that'd be great to be able to do that...!`" < more>

"This was not some isolated little fellow; a hermit off on a mountain somewhere who just got head lice and developed boils. This was the big man on campus..." < more>

"When I decided to leave Manhattan for rural Alabama last fall I admit I had this naive idea that... [there] I'd see just how old-fashioned fundamental Christianity still prevailed..." < more>

"You know something, this idea about health and wealth you hear preached all the time on the tube -- let's be honest; you can get by in your life without being healthy..." < more>

"'My talk is not that serious. Just a talk,' he said. 'If you came for a message, you will get disappointed...'" < more>

"Nobody's going to be aimlessly floating around in their clean white underwear, strumming... in a vast sea of clouds..." < more>

"The notion that `movies don't kill people, lunatics kill people` is liberating to us screenwriters because it permits us to give life to our most demented fantasies..." < more>

"...everybody's against me... I don't deserve this! I didn't do wrong; I didn't do evil... Look at what they're doing to me...!" < more>

"Wow, these guys have might and strength and power and ability...!" < more>

"They're not just up there turning summersaults, running around willy-nilly bumping into each other..." < more>

"The problem with that is when everything's equal, one thing can't show up, and that's the truth..." < more>

"... says the same guy wrote both of them, you know what, I bet the same guy wrote both of them. You know why? Because that guy really didn't write them at all..." < more>

"You know what you are? You're a bunch of whited sepulchres...[...] You've got this external religion; you got it all cleaned up and whitewashed, but inside you're just dead..." < more>

"We used that word 'ghost' to describe something in the spirit world that's human. It's talking about the human nature..." < more>

"I'd rather die if you think I'm going back to that system again! I'd rather die than place a system of bondage there...!" < more>

"These guys were such law keepers that even when their spices were growing in the kitchen they would tithe that! I mean, these guys were sticklers..." < more>

"If you listen to him talk about where he gets his material, he'll tell you a lot of it comes out of religious content. Some of it is pagan religious content, but it's religious content..." < more>

"By the way, the internet folks—Google, Microsoft, Yahoo—all sold out to the Chi-coms. The Google guys now say, 'Oh, we made a mistake,' but you notice they waited 'til they counted their money..." < more>

"He said, 'If you do this then you`ll be my people. If you don`t, I`m gonna curse you. And the blessings came when they performed, and the curse came when they didn`t..." < more>