In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

The Search for Truth is a homeless vagrant who begs for food and gathers enough spare change for malt liquor.

Bauvard

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Warren Buffett

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Adolf Berle

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

William Shakespeare

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash

Love's the sonstood stammering elocutionwhile the poor ship in flames went down

Elizabeth Bishop

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson

The ordinary reverence, the reverence defined and explained by the dictionary, costs nothing. Reverence for one's own sacred things--parents, religion, flag, laws and respect for one's own beliefs--these are feelings which we cannot even help. They come natural to us; they are involuntary, like breathing. There is no personal merit in breathing. But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours. You can't revere his gods or his politics, and no one expects you to do that, but you could respect his belief in them if you tried hard enough; and you could respect him, too, if you tried hard enough. But it is very, very difficult; it is next to impossible, and so we hardly ever try. If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean it does nowadays, because we can't burn him.http://www.twainquotes.com/Reverence.html

Mark Twain, Following the Equato