Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

The limitations you are willing to accept establish the boundaries of your existence.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Your dreams are the product of your longings, a portrait of your potential, and a promise of your future.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

There's never been a sense of public service about Donald Trump.

Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

Like books, artists have their fates.