My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

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.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

[God is] everything in the creative force.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.