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

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

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

Forever doesn't feel like eternity when you're by my side

Don't worry about being a normal person, let the normal person worry about not being you.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

If music's a political place, I'm out.

If I told you Jesus Christ was black you're going to be afraid of me because I'm telling you the truth. That's where I always come from.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.