"They're watching the Weather Channel, CNN, Fox, CNBC. Old Bill O'Reilly's pulling his hair out and Chris Matthews doesn't know what to tell anybody to think..." < more>

"Because early Catholics wanted a holiday to compete with the Roman pagan festival marking the 'birthday of the unconquered sun,' or the winter solstice when the days begin to lengthen, they devised Christmas, a term that comes from joining Christ's name with the Catholic word 'mass'..." < more>

"Think about what happened to Germany after World War II. It became an economic power in Europe. What happened to Japan after WW II? It became an economic power in the Asia-Pacific region. What might happen in modern day Iraq if it truly becomes a democracy...?" < more>

"Every seminary in the world -- evangelical, Protestant, Catholic -- works on the basis of the idea that we (Believers) have replaced Israel." < more>

"I used to watch Mr. Mackey climb up that ladder... and then he'd bounce that ladder across the building... I could do that with a 20-footer, but man, I wasn't going to do it with a 40-footer...!" < more>

"They wouldn't be wrong about anything, and you and I better listen to every single word they say. We better mark it down..." < more>

"Here at the pinnacle, where every nuance has a nuance, the mind is a constantly whirring computer, cleared of thought, making instant decisions..." < more>

"God's behind everything that happens because He's pre-arranged all of what goes on, including predetermining the details of a person's life..." < more>

"You can't just look at it and look up there and make any rhyme or reason out of why they did it the way they did it. The reason it's arbitrary is because there's a doctrine being depicted. The pictures they drew teach the doctrine..." < more>

"As soon as you do that, you'll quit thinking, 'Woe is me, the washing machine isn't working right...'" < more>

"We're going to do our own thing. We're going to do what we want to do, when we want to do it and how we want to do it..." < more>

"It's not the love of Harlequin Romance novels. It's not the love of the religious system where everybody pats each other on the back. It's not a back-slapping, handshaking, grinning, Madison Avenue kind ..." < more>

"If a camera is on you during a worship service, worship; don't dance, jump, etc. Jumping and dancing in church looks too bizarre for most to relate to..." < more>

"When I said to a nurse standing at the communication desk nearby, 'This woman needs help,' she simply responded, 'This isn't my floor...'" < more>

"Of course, there were people who thought Johnny was nuts, walking about in no shoes, a ragged coat and stewpot hat, but the children always loved him and they were the ones to coin his famous name..." < more>

"He remarked in a recent speech that Israel was a 'disgraceful blot' that should be 'wiped off the map...'" < more>

"He proudly tells you he got his own mission-purpose directly from the Rev. Robert Schuller. His mentor is Billy Graham. He appears on stage with guys like whacked-out T.D. Jakes, recently the butt of jokes in a Jimmy Kimmel monologue..." < more>

"Why would you do such a thing?" they wanted to know. His answer, in effect: "There are 330 million gods in Hinduism and yet Jesus Christ is the only one who ever claimed, 'I will shed my blood for you.' All the others want you to shed your blood for them." < more>

"It is a toilsome reading as I ever undertook, a wearisome, confused jumble, crude, incondite. Nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Koran..." < more>

"...who had graciously agreed to meet with these new arrivals, offered as a piece of advice, 'Now you men should be careful of going with prostitutes -- you can catch a disease...' Another compassion-filled gem of infinite wisdom was, 'Education is critical for success...'" < more>

"One hundred years ago, fundamental Bible-believing people in Chicago knew all about these things..." < more>

"We are called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges..." < more>

"We currently live in the groaning stage..." < more>

"Just as it is in a momma's touch with a newborn baby, there's a love there and a communication there that passes any ability to understand and explain it..." < more>

"This may explain the super-human strength of the man that enabled him to break the fetters and chains with which the authorities tried to bind him..." < more>

"While the fool's heart wants an alibi to do what it wants to do, and develops mental gymnastics to justify all actions, there's no peace in that. Trying to be indifferent, forget or push it out of the mind won't work..." < more>

"I'm speaking in parables so people CANNOT get it. Because they don't have ears to hear, eyes to see and hearts to understand. So I'm hiding the stuff in parables that they can't understand..." < more>

"Nothing was further from her intention than to destroy my faith; she could not tell that the room into which she brought this candle was full of gunpowder..." < more>

"In just the last 10 years, we have learned more about our genes and brains, about our planet and resources, and the solar system, than in all previous history ... Powerful forces are revolutionizing life on the planet..." < more>

"One man wrote that the Bible was 'like Ivory soap --- it's ninety-nine and one-quarter percent pure.' One fellow said about that, 'Well, you know rat poison is only one percent poison...'" < more>

"He doesn't even make the creature equal with the creator, he makes the creature superior to the creator... Somebody jokingly said that God created man in His own image and that man ever since 'the fall' (of Adam and Eve) has been trying to return the favor..." < more>

"Not having competent counselors is bad enough, but then to have led them to believe that a church experience is the same as being born again is the height of apostasy. . . . Billy has not compromised, he has gone kaput!" < more>

"With a sound similar to the grinding of gears and the screeching of wrenched metal when a piece of finely tuned machinery breaks, so the words, 'till iniquity was found in thee,' shatter the air and tell us something horrible happened inside this exceptional creature..." < more>

"'There seems to be some limitation built into us either by learning or by the design of our nervous systems, a limit that keeps our channel capacities in this general range...'" < more>

"How does a person reconcile these 'marching orders,' given 'to the eleven' apostles (Mark 16:14), with reality? Huh, Warren?... " < more>

"The lanky, gray-bearded man... has on a white dress shirt and blue suitcoat with matching trousers he's purposefully cut off above the knee to resemble the school uniforms worn by schoolchildren across his native country... 'Let them who want to make fun of me do it...'" <more>

"You say, 'What in the world?! Where would that come from?' He was a murderer; nobody had any use for him on the face of the earth but a mother. She was able to do that, not because she thought the lives of the people he killed were valueless, it's because there's something in her that's like God, who never lets you go even when you ought to be let go." <more>

"A superficial and shallow finishing school-type disciplinarian who's 'testing us' even by the way we sing a song and throw out the garbage, noting all our successes and slip-ups for a big 'final exam' in which we will be 'audited'..." <more>

"'Rick Warren's new, ground-breaking manifesto will set millions of people free to live the lives God intended....' No it won't. Give Warren a chance and he'll put you on a performance treadmill you can never step off..." <more>

"Vincent himself writes of the painting, 'I have a portrait of Gachet with the heartbroken expression of our time -- something like what Gauguin said of his `Christ in the Garden of Olives,` not meant to be understood , but there; anyhow, we follow him.'" <more>

"...didn't say what should be done with priests who sin and made no reference to the sexual abuse scandal among U.S. priests, but the pope was clear in his belief that priests in the U.S. scandal 'could be forgiven'... <more>

"People try to make the Lord Jesus Christ and His earthly ministry and His earthly life our pattern but you better not go there -- that's not a very good place for you to be..." <more>

"Amazingly chipper and unfazed, bearing up under the stress of the presidency better than any previous U.S. Chief Executive, especially given the problems he was confronted with, he replied, 'I have a foxhole in my mind...'" <more>

"You know what Plato had in front of him before anyone ever burped him or weaned him off the pabulum?" <more>

" 'I think I would have made a good lawyer,' she said to me, explaining that her mother, during the Great Depression, had only enough money to send one of her two children to college and Pilar firmly agreed it must be her brother. 'I didn't have no college but I made it,' she said..." <more>

"I think I ought not apologize for my actions. I am at war with your country..." <more>

"You could be a Death Row inmate, mental patient, U.S. congressman or movie star..." <more>

"An overall 'take-away' was that because American consumers now live in an environment of three-second soundbites, getting through a particular message demands a quick-read of an individual across a wide range of interests, instinctively knowing their unspoken needs..." <more>