“Going to church doesnt make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

“Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.”

“Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.”

“The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.”

“The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.”

“One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.”

“We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life”

“All you have already done, achieved and opened it is not a potential”

“I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not de...”

“My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.”

“When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted the...”