A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

Sometimes we don't get second chances. Sometimes things just end.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Never Be A man of Success but be a man of Value

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.