Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

If I could have anyone in the world, it would still be you

I had been too tired and too sick with melancholy to ride my bike, knowing full well that riding my bike was a cure.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

So, if there's no God, who changes the water?

He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

I do think it's important to be honest about your feelings in a long term relationship because it's totally human to be attracted to other people. It's just about what you do about that attraction.