Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

There is no one anywhere as available to everyone everywhere as is God.

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.

The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.

How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat?

Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.

Some people take fashion very seriously....but that’s not right... Fashion should be fun!

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.