"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson...
"The role of reporters, bloggers and pundits shouldn't be to proclaim the death of religion, (after all wouldn't that put some of them out of a job?) but rather to spot what new forms American religion takes next." -- Andrea...
"I think the First Amendment gives me a right to be offensive. To live in a free society, you've got to pay a price, and the price is toleration." -- Larry Flynt Photo: AP...
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." -- The Dalai Lama...
"The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters." -- Alvin Dark, major league baseball manager (1961-1977) and born-again Christian...
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall --...
"And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here." -- St. Augustine...
"I think he's doing a great job. I'm impressed with his skill, his calmness, his just strength under pressure. These are tough times for him." -- Joel Osteen, Houston megachurch pastor and best-selling author, on President Barack Obama. (He...
"We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values." -- President Barack Obama, at a...
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." -- The Buddha...
"Money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail." -- Kinky Friedman Photo: BRUCE TOMASO...
"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same...
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours." -- C.S. Lewis...
"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning." -- Benjamin Franklin...
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day." -- George Carlin...
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." -- W.C. Fields...
"We can't bail out investment banks and leave food banks behind." -- Petition from FaithfulAmerica.org urging Congress to increase assistance to the poor...
"Roughly speaking, there are two kinds of thinking in the world: that you use to try to make points, win arguments with, and that you use to find out things." -- Dashiell Hammett...
"If you ignore your bodies' warning signals and pretend they don't exist, then you will not get better. If you aren't honest with yourself and don't confront and deal with your own issues, then there is no hope. If you...
"Ain't no sense worrying about things you got no control over, 'cause if you got no control over them ain't no sense worrying. And ain't no sense worrying about things you got control over 'cause if you got control over...
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