God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

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!

Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

People get so tired of the '60s.

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.

Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.