Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

If the region truly becomes democratic, an undemocratic bit of earth would remain here. It's hard to imagine that the world, especially the Arab world, would tolerate this.

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.