Malcolm Boyd

“Jesus was not a Christian.”

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”

“Are you running with me, Jesus?”

“The closet is a coffin.”

“The civil rights movement was the most profound spiritual experience of my life.”

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day.”

“The church must be a place where the questions are as important as the answers.”

“It's morning, Jesus. It's morning, and here's that light and sound all over again.”

“My sexuality is a part of me that I embrace. It is not the totality of me.”

“To be a prophet is to speak a truth that people don't want to hear.”

“We have to be present to the moment, to the now, because that is where life is.”

“I see Jesus in the face of the oppressed.”

“Prayer is not a list of requests. It's a way of life.”

“We need to move from a religion about Jesus to the religion of Jesus.”

“The church is not a museum for saints, but a hospital for sinners.”

“This is a new day, a new beginning.”