I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.

We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.

The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others.

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.