No one has the last word other than God.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

I hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the album.

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.