In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

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.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

When you are extravagant, you can result yourself facing alot of debt and not adjust to the pursuit of happiness.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.