A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Books open a realm to a world beyond our own, all one has to do is take a leap of faith, open one, and step through the gate, passed the veil of myth on into the unknown.

Surviving is good, but overcoming is better.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

President Lorenzo Snow declared that it is "the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint . . . to have the manifestations of the spirit every day of our lives."

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.