Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn’t fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot.

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.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

Everything I do is music-related.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day.

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.