It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.

Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Total contentment is only for cows.

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.