Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

May you find your path and travel on it.

When you face tests and persecution don’t complain, but remember that everything works together for good for those who love God

The clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.Life is like that, so why not relax?Who can stop us from celebrating?

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.