Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such

The kingdom of God is within you.

With God, all things are possible.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.

the value of a thing is not the thing but what is behind the thing

I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday. I miss singing a lot. I listen to Broadway show tunes in my car and sing along to them.

I am a daylight atheist.

As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.