God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

With God, there is always a future.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

Especially in this Internet age, routine practices are being exposed and rightly recognized as harsh and cruel.