Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.

What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?

Authority is established by God for the wellbeing of His people

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.