On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

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!

They would never have demanded he be like them

She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.

Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.