Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?