If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

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.

When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn’t know whether to celebrate with champagne… or hemlock.

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

Once you start overthinking it, it's like it ain't a feeling no more.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

Every day I turned a 'you can't' into a 'you can.'