My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.

My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.

I hear a sacred voice.

Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force without freedom and law.Republicanism is force with freedom and law.

Start where you are, use what you have.

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

Alessandro del Piero reminds me of Robert Rosario when I had him at Coventry.

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

Go for today, don't worry about the future, it'll come eventually

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.