Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.