Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.

Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

Be a leader with a ladder, not a boss with an order.

It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay.

Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you?