One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.

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.

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

When he smiles like that, there's a single dimple. It was the thing that got me the very first time I saw him.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.