If we allow our American mindset of consumption to spill into our understanding of what a Christian is, we are in danger of living irrespective of world family.

We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.

What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to disengage and quickly exit?

We don't treat Jesus like a puppy, soaking in his excitement over our coming home and then leading him back to stay in the laundry room when we go out to begin another day.

Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.

We must make decisions as if they affect those we've not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family.

Your presence only truly matters to people who feel your absence.

If you can think it, you can become it.

Be the one for others who they can look up to

Do not allow hate to take root in your heart.

True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.