Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis!

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

he wished for freedom and heaven was granted to him".

It's sad to be constantly judged for every move you make after your first success. If you wear your hair differently, you have changed.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

Life always take on the character of its motive.

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

Good morning, people of the U.N.