A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.