If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"

Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.

Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.

If I ever have downtime, I'm usually sitting in my place playing video games. Or eating sandwiches somewhere, or watching sports some place.

As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.

What was said about all of us? We're stupid. You'll never work in a town again. How do you look your four children in the eye? You've sold your soul. You know, it went on and on.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.