If you want to make God laugh, tell him-her your plan

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

A life of abundance knows nothing about a mind that allows its obstacles to distract it from life's endless possibilities.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

When I saw 'Independence Day, ' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

The world is changing so rapidly, and many people are paralyzed with fear and anxiety about the future. The angels can guide us through these changes, and give us solid guidance that we can trust.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken.