Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

The world will not change until we do

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

We're over-delivering value against other choices I think consumers can get.

I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.

Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.