The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.

A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.

Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!