Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

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.

It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

Don't let a man put anything over on you except an umbrella.

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.