#God

"Mint Julep {Couplet} I've had more than a hint of a tulip or two,after treating them to a mint julep, or two."

"It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love."

"God is love,"she said. "And he respects love, whether it's between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don't think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Don't hurt others, and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And don't worry about heaven. If it exists, you'll be welcome."

"This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love."

"My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do."

"Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable."

"I'm Not Talking About Fruitcake [10w] The greatest gifts are the ones that can be regifted."

"I [10w] 'I' is a wellspring in the desertoverflowing with life."

"Dictator [10w] Clever dictators keep their friends closeand their enemies dead."

"We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God."

"Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made"

"Crest Toothpaste: Look, Ma, no cavities!... ...that'll really piss off the TSA agents looking for contraband."

"It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion."

"Overheard at Ashtanga Yoga Class *"I don't know my he left me. I even had a rabbit's food hanging from my dreamcatcher.""Maybe you should've used a little more suction and a few less amulets."

"Hug [10w] To embrace what you truly love,give it a hug."

"My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders."

"Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty."

"Lowbrows vs. Highbrows If you show something lowbrow to a highbrow does it wind up becoming crusty eye caca?"

"Don’t Let the Dead Fish Fool You [10w] Even the eyes of a dead fish can reflect light."

"You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like."