The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

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.

Practice the L Trinity Live Love Laugh And Laugh some more

#ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

I used to like studying a lot.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.