The gospel is the gospel of the cross. This means that God loves the objects of his wrath and that he, in his love, embraces men alienated from him.

I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.''I won't let you fall.

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.