It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.