And the thing about grace, real grace, is that it stings. It stings because if it's real it means we don't "deserve" it. ... And receiving grace is basically the best shitty feeling in the world.

Church isn’t perfect. It’s practice.

What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.

Leave a person alone who had a unpleasant past if you cant make his future a pleasant, you would do worse

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.

Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.