Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

I keep in too many of the words I need to let out. And then I let out too many of the words I need to keep in.

I wasn't the kind of girl who liked to wait around to be rescued.

Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?

We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly.

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

I'd rather lie down than jump up.