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.

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.

If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!

If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.

I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.