Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
You don't fall in love. You commit to it.
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.