No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

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 are a child of mine, Born of my own design, And you bear the hard of life.No matter where you go, Oh, you will always know, That you've been made free in Christ, And you are a child of mine!

If the heart could think it would stop beating.

I also like ladies. And not as in shopping buddies, but in the carnal sense.

You have to think about yourself and think about where you are and if you're happy. If you feel good and you feel happy, then that's the path you should be on.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

When I was a kid, I would always write down lists of my favorite things and keep them in my wallet, just in case someone ever needed to know what my 10 favorite foods were, or my 10 favorite actors.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.