The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.

Changed people change nations.

Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.

We take a last look out of the window at the night, and I send a silent wish to everyone out there for this kind of warmth.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

A neighbour put his budgerigar in the mincing machine and invented shredded tweet.

I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for fear; we suffer the consequences

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.