Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

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.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

In the process of letting go, we create abundance.

My feelings for Drew couldn't just disappear. They were ingrained within every fiber of my being, and I needed them just the same as I needed air to breathe.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

Go see, ask why, show respect.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.