I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk.

Heaven is a perfect place God made for us who love Him! Alleluia! Amen!

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.