The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.

If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

Rejecting Jesus Christ is like a fugitive who spends all day running but has nowhere to hide

Then I woke in the shade of the fig tree in my favorite park, with the gun barrel in my mouth.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.

We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.