True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

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.

After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

Absolutely, I think coming out has allowed me to align who I am with with my creative self.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.