Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

There more we read the Holy Bible, there more we will believe in God.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

I need one more bass less.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.