Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Joe Baca

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

C.S. Lewis

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

William Cowper

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Diablo Cody

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

Evan Bayh

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Johann von Goethe

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Bruce Cockburn

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Pat Riley

Lean forward into your life...catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

Jonathan Sacks