If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.

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.

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

Character is BUILT by repeatedly choosing the best over the easiest.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

Work and pray, live on hay, youll get pie in the sky when you die.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?