You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator,” he shouted at the cops. “They were vile, but they didn’t deserve to be taken out with the trash!

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected; it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17.

Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24.

Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22)

Jackson asked, “Where’d the water come from in your house?””A pipe.” Then he explained to Jackson, “Water travels in pipes.

When Matthew merely stared at him, Jackson reached into the weapon box and pulled out a sheathed machete, handing it to the boy.Matthew laughed and dropped it.

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books ascribed to Mark, and John; and is differently related in Matthew and Luke....

That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they’re blue in the face...