If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

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!

Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you was the first thing that hit my head. Good morning my darling.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air