"They're praying for the dead and why would you pray for dead people...?" < more>

"They had all kinds of metallurgy and sciences going. They were advanced economically, culturally, commercially and politically. This was no mean little place..." < more>

"What strikes me is that God warns that on the very day you eat of this fruit, 'you shall surely die.' But the serpent speaks more accurately, saying, 'You will not die' -- and, of course, they do not..." < more>

"Another 16-year-old from Queens agreed, saying, 'It's your status. Just to make you look fresh. They're gonna ask, `Where did you get that?` Its a show-off...'" < more>

"Emad lafta al-Bayati, Hillas mayor, has big plans for Babylon. 'I want restaurants, gift shops, long parking lots,' he said. 'God willing,' he added, 'maybe even a Holiday Inn...'" < more>

"A trainer of those pastors there was put in jail last year... He said it was inconvenient to the work of the ministry. 'I've got these men who need to be trained and I'm having to be over here [being] tortured...' " < more>

"I watched once on the Discovery Channel some lions chasing some antelope and a lion literally has this gazelle with its entrails all hanging out, and the poor gazelle is still fighting to get away..." < more>

"In Luke 1 and 2, Mary is shown as more than willing to be the mother of the Messiah, but in Christ's ministry she stands among those who thought He was insane, deranged and off His rocker..." < more>

"...five 50-inch plasma-screen televisions, a bookstore and a cafe with a Starbucks-trained staff making espresso drinks... a drive-through latte stand... annual Krispy Kreme budget is $16,000... < more>

"If a slave was killed, or fixed where they couldn't work anymore, the guy had to pay 30 pieces of silver to his master..." < more>

"... he didn't just let them gradually disintegrate into nothing... He rained fire and brimstone down and got them in one day, and when they went down, they went down in absolute flaming destruction..." < more>

"So all those old man problems are left behind, and all the things that need to be judged and straightened out..." < more>

"Gloom, despair and agony on me. Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all..." < more>

"He's not a hippopotamus, and he's not an elephant, and he's not a dinosaur. Who is he...?" < more>

"People got saved and burnt their old books and other pagan stuff. It completely transformed their whole society..." < more>

"The kind of rare events that really change the world -- be they wars or disasters, inventions or serendipitous discoveries, bubbles or crashes -- are things we don't see coming, and aren't prepared for..." < more>

"'Are you saying then that Syria, for example, is equal in its value systems with America?' responded the radio show host. 'Absolutely, said the caller. Their system's just as good, it's just different...'" < more>

"His religion was like that of an old man he once heard at a church meeting: When I do good, the man had said, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that's my religion..." < more>

"...like hearing someone ask for Cincinnati Chili or a Chicago Red Hot. It's just something you NEVER hear of in New York because it doesn't exist..." < more>

"I'm going to build me a city and I'm going to name it after my boy, and I'm going to raise it for posterity and a name to myself..." < more>

"There were interviewers assuming I'd had a ghostwriter. When they learned I wrote it, they said, 'How *could* you have been so honest...?'" < more>

"Creatures who have real bodies, can wear clothing, eat, cook, drive chariots, ride horses and fight... speak a multitude of languages... travel at incredible speeds..." < more>