Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

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 have only one chance to raise your child.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.