I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed