Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don’t love him above all.

God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.

At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university's board of trustees for more than three decades.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."