Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.

Jesus doesn't adjust to us, and He doesn't submit to our whims. We adjust to Jesus and submit to Him. Jesus is King, not an accessory.

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.

What could be more encouraging than realizing that Jesus calls the unqualified?

Our relationship with Jesus is based on grace- on the unexpected, undeserved, counterintuitive love of God.

Jesus offers undeserved love, a love we don't deserve and can therefore never lose.

There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.

I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

...bleak territory of the heart.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.