Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

Further up and further in!

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

Some people are immune to good advice.

One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.