Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

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.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.

It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.