Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep.

How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

Remember it is not you who supports the root, but the root that supports you.

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

The pain that you've been feeling, can't compare to the joy that's coming.

Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so the the body of sin might be brought to nothing, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin.

...so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin.

We need to remember how what Christ has already done transforms who we are right now -- not later, once we get it together but right now in all the messes we've made.

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Do you think there could be a universe next door?

The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.