I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

That was the river, this is the sea.

Dance with your sacred rhythm.

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity