"Kathleen Sebelius is resigning because Obamacare has won."

"I do not accept that we drown in a sea of hunger, letting the waves of death drag us under. We love life, we want to live. And we do not want to sink in a sea of pain and suffering."

"The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S.  to intervene with military force."

"One seeks to get to a place where a conversation ends. The other seeks never to end the conversation, and, in fact, gets a little queasy when any topic is ruled out of bounds."

"When we carried him up to receive a blessing he said, 'Please, can I have some Eucharist?'"

"According to Brooks, if people are stealing on Wall Street we shouldn't look to try to have regulations and punishment, we should go after them with love. It will be interesting to see if Brooks shows the same attitude towards people's whose greed leads them to steal cars or burglarize houses."

"He’s sad because he gets no salary and relies on tips like every other waiter, but people undertip him because at this restaurant they get their own food so they think he’s not a real waiter even though he has to bring them all their drinks and side dishes and give them a full tour of the restaurant and how it works like a clown and then bus the table because they have no busboys at the restaurant and just when the last thing he needs is for the managers to be mean and powerful middle aged women who are mean to him, that’s what also happens."

“Put me on your prayer list because I think I like Judas!

"When ice cream comes, we would like to change the culture."

Steve Thorngate

The Century managing editor is also a church musician and songwriter.

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