In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.

Why, I make more money than-than-than Calvin Coolidge, put together!

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.