Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.

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.

Regret nothing. Everything broken can be remade. And everything remade can once again be broken

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.

How we preserve time for family is one of the most significant issues we face in most cultures.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.