So why should we focus mainly on the life and teachings of Jesus? One main simple truth: because He stands in the “center” for us.

If you always point others back to biblical truth and scripture, you allow God to become the reflection for others, not you.

We may pick and choose to graft different fruits onto our spiritual tree, but regardless of what we call it, others will see a confusing fruit salad.

Our human lives serve much like frames for our spiritual lives.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.

I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

Luck is when determination meets opportunity

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.