If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.

In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.

Though situations and circumstances arise which sometimes test our faith and patience, the Lord can be trusted to see us through.

Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.

I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

I'm thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.

I always been a lover of music and it all started with me trying to make dubplates and I couldn't afford to hire people to do dubplates, so I started doing them myself.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!