Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

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.

You sound like a college freshman taking his first philosophy class way too seriously, but that's good.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

Reflection is a scene that I will cherish forever.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

My body is in accord with my mind, my mind with my energies, my energies with my spirit, my spirit with Nothing.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.