I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.

A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.