Quote of the Day (Phil Garner, Grandson of a Preacher Man)

“My grandfather was an old fire-and-brimstone-type preacher. He’d stand up there and tell his parishioners, ‘I want to throw all the beer in the river! I want to throw all the wine in the river! I want to throw all the wild women in the river! I want to throw all the cards in the river! Now, let us turn to page two twenty-nine and sing together, Shall We Gather at the River.’”—Longtime baseball player and manager Phil Garner, quoted in Bill James, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2001)

It may well be, as early 20th-century revivalist Billy Sunday frequently claimed, that “the Devil has two strikes on you!” But I think God has great, great patience for our sins—not to mention a great, great sense of humor.