For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

The Lord God must be greatly feared! We can’t stand his wrath.

In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.

Play like a champ. Win like a champ. Act like a champ.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

I feel fashion needs me for many, many years more.

It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.