Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

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.

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.

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

It is better to travel well then arrive.

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.