Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
“I love movies.”
“I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.”
“You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is reco...”
“You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world ...”
“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.”
“Anchor Your Stories in Redemptive Themes So We Are Moved to Live Up to Them: Rather than making yourself the victim or the hero in the stories you tell, describe a daunting time of loss, crisis, or...”
“All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.”
“Memories are not always the best measure of things.”
“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”