God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship.

I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.

Dreams come to those who dare dream and wake up to make them a reality.

I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

The word of God is my vow.