God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

Colorado's economy is already being threatened by unchecked climate change.

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.