I believe because it is absurd.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

I am thrilled to see my genome.

No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.