I am a free man, the slave of Christ.

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.

Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.

For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.

Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord.

If I’m not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown?

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.

No human being...is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's image. Life is a gift from God created in His own image.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

I would like to write a suicide note in three and a halflanguagesand travel south on a Thursday towardssome form of life outside of earth

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.

The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.