American Quotes

The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live.

The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice... the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical.

Tampa's crazy... The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen.

People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with.

I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.

I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.

I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.

Words are just words.

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.