Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

With courage you take on gracefully anything that tries to stop you. To have courage means to be brave and take on what ever challenges you

Perhaps the old man had chosen to look up through—or at least around—his problems while still smiling, knowing that a detour didn’t have to alter the destination, it merely changed the path.

Every time we look, they're killing Jews.

At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

° “Not a ghost, but an angel.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.