The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.
My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.
When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.
There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.
If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.
I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.