... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.

In the darkest time, we are left alone to face the fate of life.

Great things in business are never done by one person.They are done by a team of people

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

Many people look but they do not see.

His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?" "If you like." "Oh," he said, "I like.