IT is only when we are no longer in control--because of sickness, death, or our own bad choices--that we no longer cling. The path to salvation is the path of humiliation.

We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.

It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.

When we protect ourselves from what we fear, we also undermine our capacity for wonder.

The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.

I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.

I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.

Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue.

My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the early days of the NHL played for the Chicago Blackhawks.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

If I get married again, I'm just going to buy the woman a house and break up with her, because that will be the end result anyway.

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.