God [is] Not The Exclusive Property Of

My Study Of Religion, Which I Regard In Many Ways As An Art Form, Is A Search For Meaning.

Illness Itself Can Make You Angry, Enraged, Furious, And It Made Me Angry, Enraged, And Furious. I Don't Think It Brought Me To God At All. It Depends How You Deal With It. And I Think That, At Its Best, Three Little Words That Always Have To Be Applied To Religion, Religion Can Help You To Deal With That.

And Sometimes It's The Very Otherness Of A Stranger, Someone Who Doesn't Belong To Our Ethnic Or Ideological Or Religious Group, An Otherness That Can Repel Us Initially, But Which Can Jerk Us Out Of Our Habitual Selfishness, And Give Us Intonations Of That Sacred Otherness, Which Is God.

Surely It's Better To Love Others, However Messy And Imperfect The Involvement, Than To Allow One's Capacity For Love To Harden.

If We Could View Muhammad As We Do Any Other Important Historical Figure We Would Surely Consider Him To Be One Of The Greatest Geniuses The World Has Known.