If mainstream culture thinks gender roles are unimportant, church culture makes them too important.

When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning.

You've got to S-M-I-L-ETo be H-A-Double-P-Y

What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.

They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.