Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

The peace within is the power of the Holy Spirit.

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

Sure the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count - it's a fun body count.

The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.

Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.