We are often harsher judges than God himself.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.

A moment with Jesus changed everything.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

To enjoy the beauty of the world, don’t try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries.

Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-

I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.