Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.