Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life, ’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.

If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place.

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

I would be quite wise to realize that I will never craft a solution that will be the ‘end-all, ’ and that God’s ability to craft perfect solutions never ends ‘at-all.

In a society as broken as ours, "antisocial" behavior is the only behavior worth defending.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

Every powerful storm will help us to make a stronger shelter!

Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?