The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

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.

I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people

Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?

The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

When you get involved romantically with someone, sometimes you end up overlooking things that you could help people with better, as a friend.

I'm irrational about all things creative and I'm always late!

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.