The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

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.

Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.

If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.

I've always been very self-motivated.

You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.