At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

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.

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

Cheers went up around the decks as the Dolphins oars began to move as one in and out shifting and cutting away at the sea beneath, SICANIA RISING

Sometimes we do not have words to explain our emotions, just a smile is enough.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Could others hold him?" His face remains the same. "There are no others. You're the only one." I swallow. "I can hold him.

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.

And for an apple damn'd mankind.