I think that at the core of faith is trust.

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!

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

Bad shooters are always open

I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.