Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.

The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day...I warm up for an hour before a gig.

Look, I don't need to feel like hell for failing you, okay? For failing you like I've failed every other godforsaken thing that I care about! I don't need it!

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.