Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.

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.

My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on, "an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another".

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.