Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.

The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1, 400 years.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.